Sentences with phrase «average sodium excretion»

In the process, sodium is lost too, and it may result in lowered blood pressure (in Overlack et al. the counter-regulators had 10 % higher average sodium excretion than salt - resistant group, and 20 % higher than salt - sensitive group).

The sodium excretion of the study subjects of 3.8 grams per day was significantly higher than the average sodium excretion of around 3.4 grams per day in the U.S. and Canada.

The average sodium excretion of study participants was 4.9 grams per day, about 50 percent more than the average sodium intake of 3.3.

The average sodium excretion for the group was 4,770 milligrams.

Not exact matches

First, one 24 - hour urine collection might be insufficient to characterize an individual's habitual salt intake, but it does accurately reflect the average salt consumption of groups of subjects.42 Thus, our analyses based on tertiles of 24 - hour urinary sodium should be less vulnerable to the high intraindividual variability of sodium excretion.

In the lowest category of sodium excretion, with an average of 1.9 grams per day, the percentage of subjects that had CVD events was higher (7.2 percent) than that of the second category (6.8 percent), with average excretion of 3 grams per day, even though the average BMI and percentage of high - risk males was lower in the lowest category.

The percentage of CKD patients who had cardiovascular events during follow - up was higher (18.4 percent) in the lowest quartile of urinary sodium excretion (average excretion 2.5 grams per day) than the 16.5 percent in the second quartile (average excretion 3.3 grams per day).

Most importantly, the study found that sodium excretion equal to the «adequate intake» promoted by health officials of 1.5 grams per day was associated with a large increased risk of death and serious CVD events compared to the average reference level of 4.5 grams per day (hazard ratio 1.80).

These values are derived from twenty - four - hour urinary sodium excretion measurements in studies involving over one hundred thousand participants.4 Cordain implies that sodium intake in «non-westernized people» is far lower than in the US, but in fact the average daily sodium intake in Asia, Africa and the Middle East is about 50 percent higher than the 3.4 grams per day in the U.S. and Canada.24, 25