Dietary sodium intake and its relationship to adiposity in young black and white adults: The African-PREDICT study.

ABSTRACT: Obesity and salt intake are both established factors contributing to cardiovascular disease development. Recently, studies found a controversial positive relationship between dietary salt and obesity. Therefore, the authors investigated whether obesity-related measures are associated with 24-hour urinary sodium in a healthy biethnic population. The study included 761 adults (20-30 years) with complete 24-hour urinary sodium, anthropometry, and bioelectrical impedance measurements. In single regression analyses all obesity-related measures related positively with 24-hour urinary sodium (P ≤ .008). However, with multivariate adjustments for energy intake, accelerometery, age, sex, black and white ethnicity, and other covariates, only body surface area (BSA) remained independently associated

SUBMITTER: Crouch SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8031310 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature