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Global health leader and epidemiologist. President and CEO of @ResolveTSL. Former @CDCgov director and @nycHealthy commissioner. Focused on saving lives.

May 20, 2019, 5 tweets

Great advice from @HansRosling, relevant to all groups attending #WHA72. Important facts about @ResolveTSL work that you may not know:

1. HTN kills more people than any other cause – 10.5M a year, more than all infectious diseases.

2. Not a single low income country has limited artificial transfat but 2 billion better off people already protected

3. More than 98% of people in the world consume more sodium than they should – but among the 2% who consume natural amounts, there’s virtually no hypertension

4. Less than 1 in 10 people in the world live in a country that is documented to be reasonably well prepared for a health emergency

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