Risk and prevention
What raises the chance of heart and vessel disease, and what lowers it.
Care topics 1
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This page is the starting point for the atlas's prevention material. For now it is built around blood pressure, because the first evidence recorded here is about medicines that lower blood pressure...
Interventions 1
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Swapping ordinary table salt for a salt that has part of its sodium replaced with potassium. The aim is lower blood pressure and, over years, fewer strokes. In SSaSS, a trial in rural China among...
Risk factors 1
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Sodium is the part of table salt linked with higher blood pressure when people eat a lot of it. The World Health Organization advises adults to keep sodium below 2 grams a day, which is about 5 grams...
Publications 2
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A large analysis that pooled the original patient-level data from 48 randomised trials of blood-pressure-lowering medicines, 344,716 people in all. It asked whether the medicines lower the risk of...
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The main report of the SSaSS salt-substitute trial, published online on 29 August 2021 and in the print issue of 16 September 2021.
Studies 1
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A large trial in rural China that tested whether replacing ordinary salt with a lower-sodium, potassium-enriched salt reduces strokes. It enrolled people who had had a stroke or who were 60 or older...
Reading paths 1
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A suggested order for reading this atlas, for an adult who has been told they have a high blood pressure reading, and for their family. It starts with what a reading and a diagnosis mean, goes...