Table 2.
Distribution of frequency and percentage of patient blood pressure based on sex sodium intake.
| All N = 205 | Women 129(62.9) | Men 76(37.1) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium intakea | <2000 | 2000–3000 | >3000 | <2000 | 2000–3000 | >3000 | <2000 | 2000–3000 | >3000 |
| Blood pressureb | |||||||||
| Normotensive (<140/90) | 26 (18.4) | 33 (23.4) | 82 (58.2) | 15 (14.9) | 22 (21.8) | 64 (63.4) | 11 (27.5) | 11 (27.5) | 18 (45.0) |
| Borderlinec | 7 (16.3) | 13 (30.2) | 23 (5.53) | 0 (0.0) | 5 (26.3) | 14 (7.73) | 7 (29.2) | 8 (33.3) | 9 (5.37) |
| Hypertensive (≥140/90) | 4 (19.0) | 5 (23.8) | 12 (57.1) | 7 (16.3) | 3 (3.33) | 4 (4.44) | 2 (7.16) | 2 (7.16) | 8 (7.66) |
| P | 0.929d | 0.226d | 0.651d | ||||||
amgr, bsystolic/diastolic, cborderline = systolic ≤ 140 and diastolic > 90, systolic > 140 and diastolic ≤ 90, and dP value derived from chi-squared test.