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ArticlePreventing chronic disease2020

CDC's Sodium Reduction in Communities Program: Evaluating Differential Effects in Food Service Settings, 2013-2016.

Julia Jordan, Hadley Hickner, John Whitehill, Benjamin Yarnoff

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Article in Preventing chronic disease, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 37% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Healthy Food Service Guidelines for Worksites and Institutions: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Julia JordanIHRC, Inc, Atlanta, Georgia.
Hadley HicknerCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
John WhitehillCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
Benjamin YarnoffRTI International, Public Health Economics Program, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · USRTI International · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

High sodium intake can lead to hypertension and increase the risk for heart disease and stroke; however, research is lacking on the effectiveness of community-based sodium reduction programs. From 2013 through 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded 10 state and local health departments to implement sodium reduction strategies across diverse institutional food settings. Strategies of the Sodium Reduction in Communities Program (SRCP) are implementing food service guidelines, making menu modifications, enabling purchase of reuced-sodium foods, and providing consumer information. CDC aggregated awardee-reported performance measures to evaluate progress in increasing the access, availability, and purchase of reduced sodium foods. Evaluation results of the SRCP show the potential differential effects of sodium reduction strategies in a community setting and support the need for additional community-level efforts in this emerging area of public health.

Indexed as

Nutrition PolicyCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.Food ServicesHumansProgram EvaluationPublic HealthSodium, DietaryUnited StatesSodium, Dietary

Identifiers

PMID32730201
PMCPMC7417026
OpenAlexW3046826030

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