Why the study?
Hypertension is linked to dietary sodium intake, which exceeds physiological necessity with increasing processed food consumption, prompting a comparison of habitual additional sodium intake between hypertensive and normotensive patients.
Habitual additional sodium intake among patients in Indore, India, exceeds WHO recommendations, particularly among younger individuals and those lacking dietary advice, highlighting the need for targeted dietary counseling in hypertension management.
Supports targeted counseling for younger patients lacking advice; leaves open whether reducing intake improves outcomes in this observational cohort.
BACKGROUND: Hypertension 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 METHODS: The 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. RESULTS: < 0.05). CONCLUSION: Most 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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