Dr Sailesh Mohan, the study’s Principal Investigator and Associate Professor at PHFI, said: “Population-based strategies are necessary given the high prevalence and growing burden of hypertension and its inadequate management in India. Therefore, it’s imperative to determine current consumption levels so that appropriate evidence-based preventative public health action can be initiated. Such data is critical in facilitating the development and implementation of an India-specific salt reduction programme, to translate the existing scientific evidence into population health gains, and also to subsequently monitor and evaluate such a programme.”