A Brief Study of Dietary Salt Intake in an Urban Yazd Population

The purpose of this study is to investigate the amount of salt consumed by the people of Yazd and the related factors based on other studies. 

A general search was performed on electronic databases of Daneshgostar Barakat system, Magiran, SID, and English databases such as Scopus PubMed, Web of sciences, Science direct and Google scholar searching engine using keywords: salt intake" OR "sodium intake" OR "salt reduction" OR "salt content" OR "sodium reduction" OR "Diet, Reducing"  regardless of the time interval. A total of 273 articles were obtained from the mentioned website. This review covers the period from June 3 to September 30, 2019. A total of 15 related articles were analyzed, and the study on the amount of salt consumed was evaluated.

The amount of salt received by the people of Yazd is higher than the standard of the World Organization and has an increasing trend.

A population-based approach can lower blood pressure levels and presumably significantly reduce mortality and start of high blood pressure. Therefore, the implementation of a comprehensive plan and intervention in salt consumption is necessary for society.