Congratulations to our society’s first president Datin Professor Dr Chia Yook Chin who had won the awards of Graham MacGregor Excellence Award in Dietary Salt Reduction at the Population Level on 17th May 2022 in conjunction with World Hypertension Day.

It is a global call to act and resolve to save lives by World Hypertension League and International Society of Hypertension (ref 1). This “call” is to align with the actions on:

• The burden of disease and key evidence supporting reductions in dietary sodium
• The consistent recommendations for reducing dietary sodium from unbiased and comprehensive health and scientific reviews
• The current levels of sodium intake
• The cost savings expected from reducing high dietary sodium
• The sources of controversial opinions
• The current recommended approaches to reduce dietary sodium, and
• How to stay up to date with evidence on how to reduce dietary sodium and the evolving research on the adverse health effects of a high sodium intake.

Ref 1. [Campbell, N.R.C., Whelton, P.K., Orias, M. et al. 2022 World Hypertension League, Resolve To Save Lives and International Society of Hypertension dietary sodium (salt) global call to action. J Hum Hypertens (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41371-022-00690-0.]