Comparing Three Approaches to Salt Intake Assessment Among Lactating Women in Rural Cambodia

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Monitoring population salt intake is a critical component of implementing salt fortification programs. In Cambodia, salt is being considered as a vehicle for thiamine fortification to prevent infantile beriberi among breastfed infants. However, salt intake among lactating mothers is not known. The gold standard for assessing sodium intake is repeat 24-hr urinary sodium concentrations. This method has logistical barriers, especially in low-resource settings, and other methods have not been trialed in this population. Here we compare three methods of assessing salt intake in lactating Cambodian women: repeat 24-hr urinary sodium concentrations (USC), repeat 12-hr observed weighed intake records (OWIR), and household salt disappearance (HSD).

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PROVIDER: S-EPMC8265549 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature