From menu to mouth: opportunities for sodium reduction in restaurants

Jessica Lee Levings1, Janelle Peralez Gunn2

  • 1Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, MS K-72, 4770 Buford Highway, Chamblee, GA 30341.

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