The Claim

East Asia showed the most notable decline in gastric cancer burden attributed to high salt intake, with age-standardized mortality rate decreasing from 3.77 to 1.76 per 100,000 and age-standardized disability-adjusted life years rate from 96.58 to 41.09 per 100,000 from 1990 to 2021.

Source: Global burden of gastric cancer attributed to high-salt diets: spatiotemporal trends and socio-demographic inequalities from 1990 to 2021

What the research says

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In plain English

This is about how eating too much salt can lead to stomach cancer. It says that in East Asia, fewer people are dying from this type of cancer now compared to 30 years ago, and people are also living healthier lives without as much sickness from it.

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East Asia showed the most notable decline in gastric cancer burden attributed to high salt intake, with age-standardized mortality rate decreasing from 3.77 to 1.76 per 100,000 and age-standardized disability-adjusted life years rate from 96.58 to 41.09 per 100,000 from 1990 to 2021.

What the research says

1 study
  1. Study: Global burden of gastric cancer attributed to high-salt diets: spatiotemporal trends and socio-demographic inequalities from 1990 to 2021

    The study looked at how high salt intake affects stomach cancer worldwide and found that East Asia had the biggest drop in deaths and health problems from it, exactly as the claim says.

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