Reducing Salt Intake in China with “Action on Salt China” (ASC): Protocol for Campaigns and Randomized Controlled Trials

Puhong Zhang   ^{1, 2 *} , PhD ;   Feng J He   ^{3 *} , PhD ;   Yuan Li   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Changning Li   ⁴ , MSc ;   Jing Wu   ⁵ , PhD ;   Jixiang Ma   ⁶ , PhD ;   Bing Zhang   ⁷ , PhD ;   Huijun Wang   ⁷ , PhD ;   Yinghua Li   ⁴ , PhD ;   Junhua Han   ⁸ , PhD ;   Rong Luo   ¹ , MSc ;   Jing He   ¹ , MSc ;   Xian Li   ^{1, 2} , MSc ;   Yu Liu   ⁹ , PhD ;   Changqiong Wang   ³ , PhD ;   Monique Tan   ³ , MSc ;   Graham A MacGregor   ³ , FRCP ;   Xinhua Li   ¹⁰ , DSc

¹ The George Institute for Global Health at Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China

² Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

³ Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Barts and The London School of Medicine & Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

⁴ Surveillance Department, Chinese Center for Health Education, Beijing, China

⁵ The National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and Prevention, The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

⁶ Chronic Diseases and Aging Health Management Division, The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

⁷ National Institute for Nutrition and Health, The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

⁸ Food Policy, China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment, Beijing, China

⁹ School of Computing, Beihang University, Beijing, China

¹⁰ Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

*these authors contributed equally