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Professor Tony Heagerty

We put several key questions to Professor Tony Heagerty, who is a UK expert on hypertension. Professor Heagerty is a professor of medicine at the University of Manchester and a consultant physician on the staff of the Manchester Royal Infirmary. He is currently president of the European Society of Hypertension.

Please use the MP3 player below to listen to the five answers. Use the next and previous buttons to navigate through the interview.

technical note:

The sound files will be loaded into the flash player above when you select a question and may take a little time to play. Please be patient.

For your reference here are the questions asked and the approx file sizes:

• What do you regard as the key points in the salt debate?
  format: mp3, approx file size: 1meg
• Is salt the “villain” it is being made out to be?
  format: mp3, approx file size: 516kb
• Would you advocate a more general health campaign?
  format: mp3, approx file size: 456kb
• What level of research do you believe is now needed?
  format: mp3, approx file size: 640kb
• It has been suggested that the long-term target for salt intake should be three grammes per day. What is your reaction to that?
  format: mp3, approx file size: 548kb

Please note your computer will require speakers for these files to heard.