American Heart Association President Available To Comment on JAMA studies

DALLAS, May 3, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Ralph Sacco, M.D., the president of the American Heart Association, is available to comment on a study about sodium that will be published in next week's Journal of the American Medical Association.  

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A January 2011 American Heart Association president's advisory, "The Importance of Population-Wide Sodium Reduction as a Means to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke A Call to Action From the American Heart Association," says:

"A compelling and still increasing body of evidence supports the imperative for population-wide sodium reduction as an integral component of public health efforts to prevent CVD, stroke, and kidney disease. The potential public health benefits are enormous and extend to virtually all Americans."

The entire statement is available at this link: http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/reprint/CIR.0b013e31820d0793

Note:  For copies of the study, please contact staff at the Journal of the American Medical Association at 312/464-JAMA (5262)  

In addition to Dr. Sacco's work on behalf of the American Heart Association, he is also: the Olemberg Family Chair in Neurological Diseases; Miller Professor of Neurology, Epidemiology & Human Genetics; Chairman, Dept. of Neurology; Neurologist-in-Chief Jackson Memorial Hospital; Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami.

To contact Dr. Sacco, contact Darcy Spitz at (212) 878-5940 or [email protected]  or Bridgette McNeill at (214) 706-1135; [email protected].

SOURCE American Heart Association