Estimation of sodium excretion should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler: misleading papers and editorial on spot urines.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. The Science of Salt: A Systematic Review of Quality Clinical Salt Outcome Studies June 2014 to May 2015.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2016
   Pooled it
2. A New Method to Estimate Dietary Sodium Intake From a Spot Urine Sample: Context and Caution.American journal of hypertension · 2021
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3. The International Consortium for Quality Research on Dietary Sodium/Salt (TRUE) position statement on the use of 24-hour, spot, and short duration (<24 hours) timed urine collections to assess dietary sodium intake.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2019
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4. Agreement between 24-h dietary recalls and 24-h urine collections for estimating sodium intake in China, Japan, UK, USA: the International Study of Macro- and Micro-nutrients and Blood Pressure.Journal of hypertension · 2019
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5. Understanding the science that supports population-wide salt reduction programs.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2017
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6. Hypertension: Salt: flawed research should not divert actions to reduce intake.Nature reviews. Nephrology · 2016
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Corrections and comments

• Commented on by
  Response to 'Estimation of sodium excretion should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler: misleading papers and editorial on spot urines'.2015
• Comment on
  Association of urinary sodium and potassium excretion with blood pressure.2014
• Comment on
  Urinary sodium and potassium excretion, mortality, and cardiovascular events.2014

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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