Associations of urinary sodium levels with overweight and central obesity in a population with a sodium intake.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Previous studies have reported an association between dietary sodium intake and overweight/central obesity. However, dietary survey methods were prone to underestimate sodium intake. Therefore, this study investigated the associations of calculated 24-h urinary sodium excretion, an index of dietary sodium intake, with various obesity parameters including body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) in a population with a relatively high sodium intake.

Methods

A total of 16,250 adults (aged ≥19 years) and 1476 adolescents (aged 10-18 years), with available information on spot urine sodium levels and anthropometric measurements from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES) were included in this study. We calculated 24-h urine sodium

SUBMITTER: Lee J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7050808 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature