ReviewNutrients2014
Current levels of salt knowledge: a review of the literature.
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41 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 71 citations in OpenAlex.
- Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviours Related to Dietary Salt Intake in High-Income Countries: a Systematic Review.Current nutrition reports · 2018Pooled it
- Factors associated with poor practice of dietary salt intake among patients with hypertension in a primary health care clinic in Malaysia.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- Dietary Salt-Related Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviors in Healthy and Hypertensive Turkish Adults from Food Choice Perspective.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Maternal high-salt intake induces sex-specific liver injury in offspring: integrative transcriptomic and therapeutic investigation.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
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- Low-Salt Diet Regulates the Metabolic and Signal Transduction Genomic Fabrics, and Remodels the Cardiac Normal and Chronic Pathological Pathways.Current issues in molecular biology · 2024Article
- Minerals and Trace Elements in 990 Beverages and Their Contribution to Dietary Reference Values for German Consumers.Nutrients · 2022Article
- The association of knowledge, attitudes and behaviors related to salt with 24-h urinary sodium, potassium excretion and hypertensive status.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Analysis of Spatial Distribution of CVD and Multiple Environmental Factors in Urban Residents.Computational intelligence and neuroscience · 2022Article
- Salt-related practices and its association with 24-hour urinary sodium excretion in an Uruguayan population cohort.Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2022Article
- Excessive Sodium Intake Leads to Cardiovascular Disease by Promoting Sex-Specific Dysfunction of Murine Heart.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
- Association of Salt-Reduction Knowledge and Behaviors and Salt Intake in Chinese Population.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Current Knowledge and Behavior towards Salt Reduction among Hong Kong Citizens: A Cross-Sectional Survey.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Using a theory of change to develop an integrated intervention for depression, diabetes and hypertension in Zimbabwe: lessons from the Friendship Bench project.BMC health services research · 2021Article
- Dietary sodium and potassium intake: knowledge, attitude and behaviour towards dietary salt intake among adults in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.Public health nutrition · 2021Article
- The Complex Role of Cognitive and Behavioral Factors in Salt Intake Levels of Women.Journal of lifestyle medicine · 2021Article
- Knowledge, attitude and behaviour of university students regarding salt and iodine: a multicentre cross-sectional study in six countries in Europe and Asia.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2021Article
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- Food as medicine: targeting the uraemic phenotype in chronic kidney disease.Nature reviews. Nephrology · 2021Review
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2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
High salt intake increases the risk of hypertension and cardiovascular diseases. Given the role of knowledge as a determinant of food intake, this paper aims to review the current levels of salt knowledge and the association between salt knowledge and dietary salt intake and salt-related dietary practices in the general population. Twenty two studies were included in the review. In general, the studies showed consumers were able to identify the health risks associated with high salt intake. However, knowledge of recommended daily intakes, understanding of the relationships between salt and sodium and foods that contribute most salt to the diet were poor. Four of the five studies which examined the relationships between salt knowledge and salt-related dietary practices reported significant associations. Two important gaps in the current literature were identified. First, there is a need for a robustly validated tool to examine salt knowledge and its impact on salt intake. Second, a comprehensive salt knowledge assessment should include assessment of procedural, as well as declarative, knowledge.
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