Even small dietary reductions in salt could mean fewer heart attacks, strokes and deaths

Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 10:07 in Health & Medicine

SAN FRANCISCO -- Reducing salt in the American diet by as little as one-half teaspoon (or three grams) per day could prevent nearly 100,000 heart attacks and 92,000 deaths each year, according to a...

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