ArticleBMC medicine2021
Estimating the health and economic effects of the voluntary sodium reduction targets in Brazil: microsimulation analysis.
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- Monitoring sodium content in packaged foods sold in the Americas and compliance with the updated regional sodium reduction targets.PloS one · 2025Article
- Sodium intake according to NOVA food classification in Brazil: trends from 2002 to 2018.Cadernos de saude publica · 2024Article
- 2022 World Hypertension League, Resolve To Save Lives and International Society of Hypertension dietary sodium (salt) global call to action.Journal of human hypertension · 2023Review
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- A Program Evaluation of a Dietary Sodium Reduction Research Consortium of Five Low- and Middle-Income Countries in Latin America.Nutrients · 2022Article
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- Health economic impacts associated with the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages in Brazil.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundExcessive sodium consumption is one of the leading dietary risk factors for non-communicable diseases, including cardiovascular disease (CVD), mediated by high blood pressure. Brazil has implemented voluntary sodium reduction targets with food industries since 2011. This study aimed to analyse the potential health and economic impact of these sodium reduction targets in Brazil from 2013 to 2032.
methodsWe developed a microsimulation of a close-to-reality synthetic population (IMPACT
resultsThe study found that the application of the Brazilian voluntary sodium targets for packaged foods between 2013 and 2032 could prevent or postpone approximately 110,000 CVD cases (95% uncertainty intervals (UI): 28,000 to 260,000) among men and 70,000 cases among women (95% UI: 16,000 to 170,000), and also prevent or postpone approximately 2600 CVD deaths (95% UI: - 1000 to 11,000), 55% in men. The policy could also produce a net cost saving of approximately US$ 220 million (95% UI: US$ 54 to 520 million) in medical costs to the Brazilian National Health System for the treatment of CHD and stroke and save approximately US$ 71 million (95% UI: US$ 17 to170 million) in informal costs.
conclusionBrazilian voluntary sodium targets could generate substantial health and economic impacts. The reduction in sodium intake that was likely achieved from the voluntary targets indicates that sodium reduction in Brazil must go further and faster to achieve the national and World Health Organization goals for sodium intake.
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