Table 5.
Patient knowledge on the recommended salt intake for healthy and unhealthy people.
| Recommended salt intake for healthy people | Recommended salt intake for unhealthy people | |||
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| Correct answera N (%) | P c | Correct answerb N (%) | P c | |
| Sex | ||||
| Women | 11 (8.5) | <0.001d | 43 (33.3) | 0.538e |
| Men | 23 (30.3) | 22 (28.9) | ||
| All | 34 (16.6) | 65 (31.7) | ||
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| Education level (year) | 0.887d | 0.420d | ||
| 0 | 19 (16.2) | 38 (31.6) | ||
| 1–6 | 11 (15.9) | 20 (29.0) | ||
| 7 and above | 4 (22.2) | 7 (38.9) | ||
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| Occupation | 0.002e | <0.001d | ||
| Employed | 21 (61.0) | 23 (35) | ||
| Unemployed/ | 13 (38.0) | 42 (64) | ||
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| FAS (item)g | 0.060d | 0.452e | ||
| High level (15–23) | 21 (22.1) | 33 (34.7) | ||
| Low/moderate level (0–14) | 13 (11.8) | 32 (29.1) | ||
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| BMI (kg/m2)j | 0.882d | 0.649e | ||
| Underweight (18.51–25.00) | 5 (20.0) | 6 (24.0) | ||
| Normal weight (25.01–30.00) | 13 (15.5) | 25 (31.6) | ||
| Overweight and obesity (30.01 and above) | 16 (15.8) | 34 (33.7) | ||
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| Blood pressure (systolic/diastolic) | <0.001d | <0.001e | ||
| Normotensive (under 140/90) | 19 (13.0) | 50 (35.0) | ||
| Borderlinek | 9 (20.0) | 12 (27.9) | ||
| Hypertensive (≥140/90) | 6 (28.0) | 3 (14.0) | ||
a,Patient's knowledge about recommended optimal salt intake for healthy people, bpatient's knowledge about recommended optimal salt intake for unhealthy people, and c,d,eP value derived from chi-squared test and Fishers' exact test. gFamily Affluence Scale, jbody mass index, and kborderline: cystolic≤140 and diastolic >90, systolic >140 and diastolic ≤90.