<p>Health states are further divided into age-, gender- and location-specific (urban and rural) submodels. Deaths from non-cardiovascular events are calculated from each compartment of the model at each time point in the simulation (not drawn). The transition probabilities between health states in the model are detailed in <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0044037#pone.0044037.s008" target="_blank">Tables S1</a>, <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0044037#pone.0044037.s009" target="_blank">S2</a> and <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0044037#pone.0044037.s010" target="_blank">S3</a>. Dietary salt reduction in the model lowers the risk of incident and recurrent myocardial infarction and stroke events. MI: myocardial infarction.</p
