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Results: The average age of the students was 22.4 ± 3.2 and 56% of them were female. 15.8% of the students were overweighted, 2.9% were obese. 26% of students were smoking, 34.2% were using alcohol. 6% of students have a chronic disease, 3.1% were hypertensive and 47.9% had a history of hypertension in their family. 57.3% of the students stated that they did not know the amount of salt that should be consumed daily, while only 21.4% knew that correctly. 50.3% of the students had the opinion that most of the salt they consume was coming from table salt, 33.6% from prepared foods and 16.1% considered that it is was naturally found in foods. 37.6% of students stated that they were checking the amount of salt in food such as cheese, butter…etc, 36.5% indicated that their daily salt consume is was high, 35.4% had a low salt intake, 60.5% wanted to reduce salt intake, 61.4% declared that they support the salt restriction in restaurants and 66.9% indicated that their choice of food would be affected with the presence of labels based on the color indicating the amount of salt in foods. Students’ average score of RSCB is 7.2 ± 2.5 and when analyzed according to the independent variables, it was found that boys have higher RSCBS than girls, students’ score who use alcohol was found to be higher than the others (p
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