Eating too much salt led to nearly 2.3 million heart-related deaths worldwide in 2010

American Heart Association Meeting Report

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Study Highlights:

• Excessive sodium (salt) consumption caused nearly 2.3 million heart-related deaths in the world in 2010.
  
• Nearly one million of these deaths occurred in people 69 years and younger.

Abstract #28 Embargoed until 3 p.m. CT / 4 p.m. ET on Thursday, March 21, 2013 (abstract data updated in release)

NEW ORLEANS — Eating too much salt contributed to 2.3 million  deaths from heart attacks, strokes and other heart-related diseases throughout the world in 2010, representing 15 percent of all deaths due to these causes, according to research presented at the American Heart Association’s Epidemiology and Prevention/Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism 2013 Scientific Sessions.

The researchers analyzed 247 surveys of adult sodium intake, stratified by age, gender, region and country between 1990 and 2010 as part of the 2010 Global Burden of Diseases Study, an international collaborative study by 488 scientists from 303 institutions in 50 countries around the world.

Next, they determined how the amount of sodium people were consuming was affecting their risk of cardiovascular disease, by performing a meta-analysis of 107 randomized, prospective trials that measured how sodium affects blood pressure, and a meta-analysis of how these differences in blood pressure relate to the risk of developing cardiovascular disease compared with consuming no more than 1,000 mg per day of sodium, which the researchers defined as an optimal amount of sodium for adults. Cardiovascular disease includes all diseases of the heart and blood vessels, including stroke.

Nearly 1 million of these deaths – 40 percent of the total — were premature, occurring in people 69 years of age and younger. Sixty percent of the deaths occurred in men and 40 percent were in women. Heart attacks caused 42 percent of the deaths and strokes 41 percent. The remainder resulted from other types of cardiovascular disease. Eighty-four percent of these deaths due to eating too much sodium were in low and middle-income countries, rather than high-income countries.

“National and global public health measures, such as comprehensive sodium reduction programs, could potentially save millions of lives,” said Dariush Mozaffarian, M.D., Dr.P.H., lead author of the study and co-director of the Program in Cardiovascular Epidemiology and associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health.

Among the 30 largest countries in the world, those with the highest death rates (per million adults) due to over consuming sodium were:

• Ukraine – 2,109
  
• Russia – 1,803
  
• Egypt – 836

Among all countries, the three countries with the lowest death rates (per million adults) due to over consuming sodium were:

• Qatar – 73
  
• Kenya – 78  
  
• United Arab Emirates – 134  

The U.S. ranked 19^th out of the 30 largest countries, with 429 deaths per million adults due to eating too much sodium (representing 1 in 10 US deaths due to these causes).

The American Heart Association recommends limiting sodium in your diet to no more than 1,500 mg a day, and has tips on how to reduce the amount of sodium in your diet, as well as information on six commonly consumed foods that are high in sodium.

Co-authors are: Saman Fahimi, M.D., M.Phil.; Gitanjali Singh, Ph.D.., M.P.H.; Renata Micha, M.D., M.P.H.; Shahab Khatibzadeh, M.D., M.P.H.; Goodarz Danaei, Ph.D.; Majid Ezzati, Ph.D.; Stephen Lim, Ph.D.; and John Powles, F.F.P.H; on behalf of the Global Burden of Diseases Nutrition & Chronic Disease Group. Author disclosures are on the manuscript.

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases funded the study.

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영국의 유명 유제품 제조 업체인 데릴리(dairylea)사의 치즈가 지나치게 나트륨 함유량이 높다고 한 건강 관련 연구 단체에서 주장했다.

이 단체가 175개의 치즈를 대상으로 조사한 결과 어린이가 가장 좋아하는 치즈인 크래프트 데릴리 슬라이스 치즈가 100그램(이하 수치 100그램 기준) 당 2.8g의 나트륨을 포함하고 있어 애틀란틱 바다가 2.5g인 것에 비할 때 더 짠 것으로 드러났다. 또한 조사한 치즈의 23%만이 포장지에 성분 함유량을 표기하고 있었다.

다른 치즈들의 나트륨 함유량은 세인즈버리(영국의 대형 마켓의 한 종류)의 페코리노 로마노 치즈가 가장 짠 치즈로 자그마치 7.4g을 함유하고 있는 반면 이 치즈의 유기물인 모짜렐라가 가장 낮은 함유율인 0.2g인 것으로 조사되었다. 그 다음으로는 아스다의 리코타가 0.25g, 막스 엔 스펜서(M&S)의 엠멘탈이 0.4g의 함유량을 나타내었다.

크레프트 데릴리 라이트 한 장은 0.8그램의 나트륨을 포함하고 있는데 이것은 3세 어린이의 일일 권장량 40%에 해당하는 수치이다.

이 단체의 대표 그레엄 맥그레거 교수는 “2.5g의 나트륨을 함유하고 있는 바닷물을 먹어 본적이 있다면, 데릴리 슬라이스 치즈가 얼마나 짠지 실감할 수 있을 것이다. 지나친 나트륨의 섭취는 아이들의 뼈에 영향을 미쳐 골다공증을 유발할 수 있다”라고 경고했다.

이에 대해 문제된 제조업체 중 하나인 ‘크레프트 푸드’사(社)는 27일 저녁(현지 시간) 나트륨 함유량을 줄이기 위해 노력하겠다고 발표했다. 

 

A family of four sharing one Cheesy Bites Meat Feast, one Medium Pan Super Supreme, one Garlic Bread, one Potato Wedges, one Saucy Chicken Wings (Buffalo) and four individual Madagasca Vanilla Cheesecakes from Pizza Hut could eat a staggering 12.3g of salt each.That’s over twice the recommended daily maximum limit for an adult (6g), and almost two and a half times the limit for a 7-10 year old (5g) in one meal.  If a 6 year old were sharing this meal they could be eating over four times their daily limit (3g).  (출처 CASH 리포트)

염분 줄였다더니 ‘피자헛·KFC’등 메뉴 ‘소금덩어리’