What is it about?
A simulation analysis was conducted to show that national healthcare costs for cardiovascular diseases might be saved by up to 2% in Japan if middle-aged and older people achieve dietary salt reduction targets in 10 years.
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Why is it important?
This is the first health economic simulation analysis on nutrition policies in Japan. Despite the decline in dietary salt intake in the Japanese population from the second half of the twentieth century, progress has stalled, and national healthcare spending on cardiovascular disease has been on the rise in this super-aged society. Our findings support calls for reinforcing population-wide interventions to leverage dietary salt intake reductions from an economic standpoint.
Perspectives
Health economic assessments of nutrition policies via simulation models should be further encouraged under the principles of sustainable healthy diets and the planetary health diet to realize a truly healthy and long-lived society in Japan.
Dr Nayu Ikeda
National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition
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This page is a summary of: Reduction of Cardiovascular Events and Related Healthcare Expenditures through Achieving Population-Level Targets of Dietary Salt Intake in Japan: A Simulation Model Based on the National Health and Nutrition Survey, Nutrients, August 2022, MDPI AG,
DOI: 10.3390/nu14173606.
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