Leveraging ongoing research to evaluate the health impacts of South Africa's salt reduction strategy: A prospective nested cohort within the WHO-SAGE multicountry, longitudinal study

BMJ Open

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2016, Pages

  Charlton, Karen ^a   Ware, Lisa J ^b   Menyanu, Elias ^a   Biritwum, Richard Berko ^c   Naidoo, Nirmala ^d   Pieterse, Chiné ^b   Madurai, Savathree Lorna ^e   Baumgartner, Jeannine ^b   Asare, George A ^c   Thiele, Elizabeth ^f   Schutte, Aletta E ^b   Kowal, Paul ^d,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^e Global Clinical and Viral Laboratories   (South Africa)

^f VASSAR COLLEGE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Salt reduction; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBENZOIC ACID; BIOMATERIAL; CREATININE; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; IODINE; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; THYMOL;

ADULT; AGING; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; FOLLOW UP; GHANA; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERVIEW; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; POTASSIUM EXCRETION; POTASSIUM URINE LEVEL; PRESERVATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALT INTAKE; SODIUM EXCRETION; SODIUM INTAKE; SODIUM RESTRICTION; SODIUM URINE LEVEL; SOUTH AFRICA; URINALYSIS; URINE PRESERVATION; URINE SAMPLING; WELLBEING; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 85001889671     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013316     Document Type: Article

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