ArticleIndian journal of community medicine : official publication of Indian Association of Preventive & Social Medicine
The Habitual Additional Sodium Intake among Hypertensive Patients Visiting a Tertiary Health-care Center, Indore, Madhya Pradesh.
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- A comprehensive review on cardiovascular disorders development due to salt intake: an emphasis on policy implementation.Health research policy and systems · 2025Review
- A case for inclusion of "Taste Modification" in hypertension.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Article
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backgroundHypertension prevalence is related to dietary sodium chloride intake. People are consuming much more sodium than is physiologically necessary. The consumption of processed food in urban India has led to a prevalence of 24%-30% of hypertension. The people have a special liking of such type of foods. This study aimed at assessing consumption of sodium among the study subjects to compare habitual additional consumption of sodium among hypertensive and normotensive patients and to find its associate factors impacting hypertension. MATERIALS AND
methodsThe hospital based, cross-sectional study was conducted on patients attending the outpatient department of general medicine. The sample size was 520 patients. Habitual additional intake of each patient was assessed by a food frequency table.
resultsAs the age advances, the proportion of hypertensive patients increases (
conclusionMost of the age groups are consuming more than 2 g habitual additional sodium which is more than the World Health Organization-recommended maximum levels. The dietary advice was given to hypertensives that had a positive impact on habitual additional sodium intake.
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