The World Hypertension League and International Society of Hypertension Call on Governments, Nongovernmental Organizations, and the Food Industry to Work to Reduce Dietary Sodium
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Abstract
Together, the World Hypertension League (WHL) and International Society of Hypertension (ISH) have developed a policy statement calling for reducing dietary salt that aligns with recommendations from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations. The policy statement below calls for broad societal action to reduce dietary salt, thus reducing blood pressure and preventing hypertension and its related burden of cardiovascular disease. The hypertension community needs to become more engaged in efforts to prevent chronic noncommunicable diseases and to advocate strongly to accelerate the uptake of policies to reduce dietary salt. The statement is being circulated to national hypertension organizations and to international nongovernmental health organizations for consideration of endorsement. The goal of the WHL and ISH is for dietary salt intake to be consistent with the WHO-recommended target of <5 g/d for adults, with lower intake in children based on their lower caloric requirements.1 At a minimum, countries should reduce dietary salt intake by 30% by 2025 as recommended by the United Nations.2 The audience for this initiative includes policy makers in government, nongovernmental organizations, and the food industry. This policy statement is consistent with the WHO's approach to dietary salt reduction programs, including product reformulation, ensuring health choices are affordable and available, increasing public knowledge and awareness, and monitoring and evaluating the program.3, 4 The aim is to call on national governments, the food industry, and nongovernmental organizations to take immediate actions to reduce dietary salt towards the WHO's recommendation of <5 g/d in adults and avoid high salt intake in children based on their proportionally lower caloric requirements. The call to national governments is to implement an effective salt reduction program that includes: The call to nongovernmental organizations is to endorse this policy statement by: The call to the food industry is to implement the following: This policy statement is based in part on that of the Pan American Health Organization Salt Expert Group.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.016 | 0.023 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.017 | 0.023 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.044 | 0.034 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".