Ordunez, Pedro http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9871-6845
Lombardi, Cintia http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7376-7243
Picone, Dean S. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4760-1634
Brady, Tammy M. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1315-6747
Campbell, Norm R. C. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1093-4742
Moran, Andrew E. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3554-0085
Padwal, Raj http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3541-2817
Rosende, Andres http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8173-0686
Whelton, Paul K. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2225-383X
Sharman, James E. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2792-0811
Article History
Received: 4 November 2021
Revised: 17 January 2022
Accepted: 26 January 2022
First Online: 24 February 2022
Competing interests
: PO, CL, and AR are staff members/consultants of the Pan American Health Organization. JES and DSP are consultants of HEARTS in the Americas, an initiative of the Pan American Health Organization. DSP is supported by a Postdoctoral Fellowship [Reference 104774] from the National Heart Foundation of Australia. TMB and AEM have received funding research or salary support from Resolve to Save Lives. Resolve to Save Lives is funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Gates Philanthropy. NRCC reports personal fees from Resolve to Save Lives (RTSL), the Pan American Health Organization and the World Bank outside the submitted work; and is an unpaid consultant on dietary sodium and hypertension control to numerous governmental and non-governmental organizations. PKW has no conflicts of interest. RP is CEO of mmHg Inc., a digital health company and provider of software solutions for remote patient monitoring. The authors are solely responsible for the views expressed in the manuscript, which may not necessarily reflect the opinion or policy of the Pan American Health Organization.