Please click on the links below to view research relating to salt published by one or more members of the Action on Salt team

2021 

• Huang L, Neal B, Wu JHY, Huang Y, Marklund M et al. The impact of baseline potassium intake on the dose–response relation between sodium reduction and blood pressure change: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials (Journal of Hypertension) 
• Alonso S, Tan M, Wang C, Kent S, Cobiac L et al. Impact of the 2003 to 2018 Population Salt Intake Reduction Program in England – A Modelling Study (Journal of Hypertension) 

2020 

• Huang L, Trieu K,  Yoshimura S, Neal B, Woodward M, Campbell NRC et al. Effect of dose and duration of reduction in dietary sodium on blood pressure levels: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials (The British Medical Journal) 
• He F, Tan M, Ma Y, MacGregor GA. Salt Reduction to Prevent Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease: JACC State-of-the-Art Review (Journal of the American College of Cardiology) 
• Pombo-Rodrigues S, Hashem K, Tan M, Davies Z, He F, MacGregor GA. Nutrition Profile of Products with Cartoon Animations on the Packaging: A UK Cross-Sectional Survey of Foods and Drinks (Nutrients)  
• Dodd R, Alvin Santos J,Tan M et al. Effectiveness and Feasibility of Taxing Salt and Foods High in Sodium: A Systematic Review of the Evidence (Advances in Nutrition Journal)  

2019 

• Campbell NRC, He F, Tan M, Cappuccio FP et al. The International Consortium for Quality Research on Dietary Sodium/Salt (TRUE) position statement on the use of 24‐hour, spot, and short duration (<24 hours) timed urine collections to assess dietary sodium intake (Journal of Clinical Hypertension) 
• Tan M, He FJ, Wang C, MacGregor GA.Twenty‐Four‐Hour Urinary Sodium and Potassium Excretion in China: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis (Journal of the American Heart Association) 
• Laverty AA, Kypridemos C, Seferidi P, Vamos EP, Pearson-Stuttard J, Collins B, Capewell S et al. Quantifying the impact of the Public Health Responsibility Deal on salt intake, cardiovascular disease and gastric cancer burdens: interrupted time series and microsimulation study (British Medical Journal) 
• He F, Ma Y, Campbell NRC, MacGregor GA, Cogswell ME, Cook NR.Formulas to Estimate Dietary Sodium Intake From Spot Urine Alter Sodium-Mortality Relationship (Hypertension) 
• He F, Brown M, Tan M, MacGregor GA. Reducing population salt intake—An update on latest evidence and global action (Journal of Clinical Hypertension) 

2018 

• Stamler J, Chan Q, Daviglus ML et al. Relation of Dietary Sodium (Salt) to Blood Pressure and Its Possible Modulation by Other Dietary Factors. The INTERMAP study (Hypertension) 
• Tan M, He F, MacGregor GA. Salt and cardiovascular disease in PURE: A large sample size cannot make up for erroneous estimations (Journal of the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System) 
• HE FJ,Campbell N,Ma Y,MACGREGOR G,Cogswell M,Cook N. Errors in estimating usual sodium intake by the Kawasaki formula alter its relationship with mortality ─ Implications for public health (International Journal of Epidemiology) 
• He FJ,MacGregor GA. Role of salt intake in prevention of cardiovascular disease: controversies and challenges (Nature Reviews Cardiology) 
• HE FJ,Zhang P,Li Y,MACGREGOR G. Action on Salt China (Lancet) 
• Lucko A,Doktorchik C,Woodward M,Cogswell M,Neal B,Rabi D et al. Percentage of ingested sodium excreted in 24-hour urine collections: a systematic review and meta-analysis (Journal of Clinical Hypertension) 

2017 

• Johnson C,Mohan S,Rogers K,Shivashankar R,Thout SR,Gupta P et al. The Association of Knowledge and Behaviours Related to Salt with 24-h Urinary Salt Excretion in a Population from North and South India (Nutrients) 
• Johnson C,Mohan S,Rogers K,Shivashankar R,Thout SR,Gupta P. et al. Mean Dietary Salt Intake in Urban and Rural Areas in India: A Population Survey of 1395 Persons (Journal of the American Heart Association) 
• Li X,Jan S,Yan LL,Hayes A,Chu Y,Wang H. et al. Cost and cost-effectiveness of a school-based education program to reduce salt intake in children and their families in China (PLoS One) 
• Petersen KS,Johnson C,Mohan S,Rogers K,Shivashankar R,Thout SR,Gupta P. et al. Estimating population salt intake in India using spot urine samples (Journal of Hypertension) 
• Pombo-Rodrigues, S., Hashem, K., He, F. and MacGregor, G. Salt and sugars content of breakfast cereals in the UK from 1992 to 2015 (Public Health Nutrition) 

2016 

• He FJ,Ma Y,Feng X,Zhang W,Lin L,Guo X. et al. Effect of salt reduction on iodine status assessed by 24 hour urinary iodine excretion in children and their families in northern China: a substudy of a cluster randomised controlled trial (BMJ Open) 
• He FJ,MacGregor GA. Hypertension: Salt: flawed research should not divert actions to reduce intake (Nature Reviews Nephrology) 
• Suckling RJ,He FJ,Markandu ND,MacGregor GA. Modest Salt Reduction Lowers Blood Pressure and Albumin Excretion in Impaired Glucose Tolerance and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Randomized Double-Blind Trial (Hypertension) 

2015 

• Campbell NRC,Correa-Rotter R,Cappuccio FP,Webster J,Lackland DT,Neal B,MacGregor GA. Proposed nomenclature for salt intake and for reductions in dietary salt (Journal of Clinical Hypertension) 
• Farrand C,He FJ,MacGregor GA. Reducing population salt intake in the Eastern Mediterranean Region - time for urgent action (East Mediterranean Health Journal) 
• He FJ,Ma Y,Feng X,Zhang W,Lin L,Guo X. et al. Effect of salt reduction on iodine status in children and their families in northern China: a sub-study of a cluster-randomised controlled trial (Lancet) 
• He FJ,MacGregor GA. Salt and sugar: their effects on blood pressure (European Journal of Physiology) 
• He FJ,MacGregor GA. Reducing population salt intake-time for global action (Journal of Clinical Hypertension) 
• He FJ,Wu Y,Feng X-X,Ma J,Ma Y,Wang H. et al. School based education programme to reduce salt intake in children and their families (School-EduSalt): cluster randomised controlled trial (BMJ) 
• Ma Y,He FJ,MacGregor GA. High salt intake: independent risk factor for obesity? (Hypertension) 
• MacGregor GA,He FJ,Pombo-Rodrigues S. Food and the responsibility deal: how the salt reduction strategy was derailed (BMJ)