Funding
The trial was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program, Ministry of Science and Technology of China, through the research grant “Diet, ExerCIse and CarDiovascular hEalth (DECIDE) project” (2016YFC1300200). China Salt General Company at Yulin provided the usual salt and salt substitute used in the study for free. The funders of the study had no role in the study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, or writing of the report.