Table 1.
Clinical characteristics of study subjects.
| Baseline | High salt | Low salt |
P
*
(high versus low salt) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-hour SBP (mmHg) | 139 ± 13,3 | 136 ± 12,7 | 131 ± 11,1 | <0,0001 |
| 24-hour DBP (mmHg) | 86,3 ± 7,4 | 85,0 ± 7,0 | 82,3 ± 6,6 | 0,004 |
| Body weight (kg) | 79,5 ± 11,2 | 77,4 ± 10,7 | 77,3 ± 10,6 | 0,43 |
| Urine-Na+ (mmol/24 h) | 165 ± 67,4 | 140 ± 39,5 | 50,7 ± 17,3 | <0,0001 |
| Serum-Na+ (mmol/L) | 140 ± 1,8 | 141 ± 1,5 | 139 ± 1,7 | <0,0001 |
*Refer to individual change of variable on high salt as compared with that on low salt (i.e., variable Δ-value). SBP, systolic blood pressure; DBP, diastolic blood pressure.