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McLaren, L., Sumar, N., Barberio, A. M., Trieu, K., Lorenzetti, D. L., Tarasuk, V., Webster, J., & Campbell, N. R. (2016). Population-level interventions in government jurisdictions for dietary sodium reduction. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews, 9CD010166. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD010166.pub2
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McLaren L, Sumar N, Barberio AM, Trieu K, Lorenzetti DL, Tarasuk V, Webster J, Campbell NR. Population-level interventions in government jurisdictions for dietary sodium reduction. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2016 Sep 16;9:CD010166. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD010166.pub2. PMID: 27633834; PMCID: PMC6457806.
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Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2016 Sep 16;9:CD010166. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD010166.pub2.

Population-level interventions in government jurisdictions for dietary sodium reduction.

The Cochrane database of systematic reviews

Lindsay McLaren, Nureen Sumar, Amanda M Barberio, Kathy Trieu, Diane L Lorenzetti, Valerie Tarasuk, Jacqui Webster, Norman Rc Campbell

Affiliations

  1. Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, 3rd floor TRW, 3280 Hospital Dr. NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 4Z6.

PMID: 27633834 PMCID: PMC6457806 DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD010166.pub2

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Excess dietary sodium consumption is a risk factor for high blood pressure, stroke and cardiovascular disease. Currently, dietary sodium consumption in almost every country is too high. Excess sodium intake is associated with high blood pressure, which is common and costly and accounts for significant burden of disease. A large number of jurisdictions worldwide have implemented population-level dietary sodium reduction initiatives. No systematic review has examined the impact of these initiatives.

OBJECTIVES: • To assess the impact of population-level interventions for dietary sodium reduction in government jurisdictions worldwide.• To assess the differential impact of those initiatives by social and economic indicators.

SEARCH METHODS: We searched the following electronic databases from their start date to 5 January 2015: the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL); Cochrane Public Health Group Specialised Register; MEDLINE; MEDLINE In Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations; EMBASE; Effective Public Health Practice Project Database; Web of Science; Trials Register of Promoting Health Interventions (TRoPHI) databases; and Latin American Caribbean Health Sciences Literature (LILACS). We also searched grey literature, other national sources and references of included studies.This review was conducted in parallel with a comprehensive review of national sodium reduction efforts under way worldwide (Trieu 2015), through which we gained additional information directly from country contacts.We imposed no restrictions on language or publication status.

SELECTION CRITERIA: We included population-level initiatives (i.e. interventions that target whole populations, in this case, government jurisdictions, worldwide) for dietary sodium reduction, with at least one pre-intervention data point and at least one post-intervention data point of comparable jurisdiction. We included populations of all ages and the following types of study designs: cluster-randomised, controlled pre-post, interrupted time series and uncontrolled pre-post. We contacted study authors at different points in the review to ask for missing information.

DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS: Two review authors extracted data, and two review authors assessed risk of bias for each included initiative.We analysed the impact of initiatives by using estimates of sodium consumption from dietary surveys or urine samples. All estimates were converted to a common metric: salt intake in grams per day. We analysed impact by computing the mean change in salt intake (grams per day) from pre-intervention to post-intervention.

MAIN RESULTS: We reviewed a total of 881 full-text documents. From these, we identified 15 national initiatives, including more than 260,000 people, that met the inclusion criteria. None of the initiatives were provided in lower-middle-income or low-income countries. All initiatives except one used an uncontrolled pre-post study design.Because of high levels of study heterogeneity (I

AUTHORS' CONCLUSIONS: Population-level interventions in government jurisdictions for dietary sodium reduction have the potential to result in population-wide reductions in salt intake from pre-intervention to post-intervention, particularly if they are multi-component (more than one intervention activity) and incorporate intervention activities of a structural nature (e.g. food product reformulation), and particularly amongst men. Heterogeneity across studies was significant, reflecting different contexts (population and setting) and initiative characteristics. Implementation of future initiatives should embed more effective means of evaluation to help us better understand the variation in the effects.

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