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Dietary sodium and potassium intake is not associated with elevated blood pressure in US adults with no prior history of hypertension

Authors: Sharma S, McFann K, Chonchol M, Kendrick J

Citation: J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich) 2014 Jun;16(6):418-23
PMID : 24720647, Journal: J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich), 16, 6
Date created: 2014-06-16

Abstract

The relationship between dietary sodium and potassium intake with elevated blood pressure (BP) levels is unclear. The authors examined the association between dietary sodium and potassium intake and BP levels in 6985 adults aged 18 years and older with no prior history of hypertension who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2001-2006). After adjustment for age, sex, race, body mass index, diabetes, and estimated glomerular filtration rate, there was no association between higher quartiles of sodium or potassium intake with the risk of a BP >140/90 mm Hg or >130/80 mm Hg. There was also no relationship between dietary sodium and potassium intake with BP when systolic and diastolic BP were measured as continuous outcomes (P=.68 and P=.74, respectively). Furthermore, no association was found between combinations of sodium and potassium intake with elevated BP. In the US adult population without hypertension, increased dietary sodium or low potassium intake was not associated with elevated BP levels.

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