Lombardi, Cintia http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7376-7243
Picone, Dean S. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4760-1634
Sharman, James E. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2792-0811
Campbell, Norm R. C. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1093-4742
Farias, Rafael
Guerre, Stephanie
Gittens, Anselm http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2616-0833
Paccot, Melanie
Villacres, Nilda
Valdes, Yamile
Ordunez, Pedro http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9871-6845
Article History
Received: 24 January 2022
Revised: 6 April 2022
Accepted: 5 May 2022
First Online: 11 July 2022
Competing interests
: PO and CL are staff members/consultants of the Pan American Health Organization. JS and DP 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. 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 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.
: Ethical approval was not required for this perspective article.