Usefulness of a salt check sheet for elementary school and junior high school children.

ABSTRACT: There are no known methods to easily evaluate the dietary salt intake of children. We hypothesized that the salt check sheet, for which validity has been confirmed in both hypertensive outpatients and in the general population, can be used to assess dietary salt intake in children. We enrolled 188 healthy schoolchildren (mean age 11.2 ± 1.1 years, 53.2% boys) and asked them to answer both the salt check sheet and a brief self-administered dietary history questionnaire for Japanese schoolchildren aged 6-18 years (BDHQ15y). The mean total salt check-sheet score was 12.7 ± 4.0 points (range: 4-24 points), and the estimated daily salt intake from the BDHQ15y was 12.1 ± 3.7 g (range: 4.7-27.2 g). The total check-sheet score was significantly positively correlated with the estimated daily salt i

SUBMITTER: Fujiwara T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8030565 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature