Consumption of fruits, vegetables and salt in the context of control of type 2 diabetes and hypertension in Kerala, India.

Background: Proper diet is necessary to control hypertension and diabetes. This paper describes the combined fruit and vegetable, and salt intake of adults (>=18 years) who were detected to have hypertension or diabetes.

Methods: We analysed the data from a state-wide survey of 12012 adults using the World Health Organization STEPs for NCD risk factor surveillance.