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Journal of Primary Health Care Journal of Primary Health Care Society
Journal of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners
RESEARCH ARTICLE (Open Access)

Low-sodium salt substitutes (LSSS) for cardiovascular health: do they work?

Vanessa Jordan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9079-6457 1 *
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1 Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Auckland, Grafton, Auckland, New Zealand.

* Correspondence to: v.jordan@auckland.ac.nz

Journal of Primary Health Care 14(3) 286-287 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC22108
Published: 16 September 2022

© 2022 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)


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