National Approaches to Monitoring Population Salt Intake: A Trade-Off between Accuracy and Practicality?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Hawkes, Corinna ^a,b   Webster, Jacqui ^c  

^a WORLD CANCER RESEARCH FUND INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Independent Food Policy and Public Health Specialist   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIET RESTRICTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SALT INTAKE; SELF MONITORING; URINALYSIS;

ADULT; CHILD; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; MALE; POPULATION; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY;

EID: 84867647950     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046727     Document Type: Article

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