Agreement Between 24-Hour Salt Ingestion and Sodium Excretion in a Controlled Environment

• Published in: Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. 1979) Vol. 66; no. 4; pp. 850 - 857
• Main Authors: Lerchl, Kathrin, Rakova, Natalia, Dahlmann, Anke, Rauh, Manfred, Goller, Ulrike, Basner, Mathias, Dinges, David F., Beck, Luis, Agureev, Alexander, Larina, Irina, Baranov, Victor, Morukov, Boris, Eckardt, Kai-Uwe, Vassilieva, Galina, Wabel, Peter, Vienken, Jörg, Kirsch, Karl, Johannes, Bernd, Krannich, Alexander, Luft, Friedrich C., Titze, Jens
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Heart Association, Inc 01.10.2015
• Subjects: Adult; Blood Pressure - physiology; Circadian Rhythm - physiology; Environment, Controlled; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Hypertension - physiopathology; Hypertension - urine; Male; Reference Values; Sodium - urine; Sodium Chloride, Dietary - administration & dosage; Urine Specimen Collection; sodium; urine specimen collection; salt; dietary; hypertension

Accurately collected 24-hour urine collections are presumed to be valid for estimating salt intake in individuals. We performed 2 independent ultralong-term salt balance studies lasting 105 (4 men) and 205 (6 men) days in 10 men simulating a flight to Mars. We controlled dietary intake of all consti...