Individuals with a lower socioeconomic status consume more salt in their meals than the well-positioned, according to a British study published in the latest issue of the medical journal BMJ Open . Salt intake is also higher in people with a low educational level and who carry out professions that involve manual work. Therefore, these subjects are more likely to suffer from hypertension, heart attacks and heart attacks , as well as to be victims of kidney failure.
The authors of the research attribute these differences to the fact that the diet of the most disadvantaged groups from a socioeconomic point of view includes low-quality foods, high in salt and fat, as well as in calories, as well as unhealthy. The excess salt comes, mostly, from industrial foods and processed foods .
