Table 3.
Energy, salt and potassium intakes from three-day dietary records and the proportion of participants meeting recommended targets for salt and potassium intake, Biomarker2019 survey.
| Variable | All n = 189 |
Men n = 99 |
Woman n = 90 |
p * |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Energy (kcal/day) # | 2183 (605) 2088 (1770–2553) |
2432 (625.9) 2387 (2006–2775) |
1910 (443.1) 1843 (1587–2138) |
<0.001 |
| Salt (g/day) # | 11.7 (4.0) 11.0 (8.9–13.5) |
13.4 (4.0) 12.6 (10.6–16.1) |
9.9 (3.0) 9.6 (7.8–11.5) |
<0.001 |
| Sodium (mmoL/day) | 200.2 (67.7) 187.5 (152.3–231.0) |
228.5 (68.9) 215.3 (181.9–276.0) |
169.0 (50.7) 163.7 (134.1–196.5) |
<0.001 |
| Salt (energy adjusted) (g/1000 kcal/day) # |
5.4 (1.3) 5.4 (4.6–6.2) |
5.5 (1.1) 5.7 (4.7–6.3) |
5.3 (1.5) 5.2 (4.3–6.0) |
0.0083 |
| Salt intake <5g/day N (%) ### |
1 (0.5%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (1.1%) | 0,476 |
| Potassium (g/day) # | 2.90 (0.72) 2.85 (2.36–3.35) |
2.98 (0.75) 2.96 (2.39–3.46) |
2.82 (0.68) 2.74 (2.33–3.27) |
0.1551 |
| Potassium (mmoL/day) | 74.5 (18.6) 73.1 (60.6–85.9) |
76.4 (19.3) 75.6 (61.3–88.7) |
72.3 (17.5) 70.2 (59.8–83.8) |
0.1339 |
| Potassium (energy adjusted) (g/1000 kcal/day) # |
1.4 (0.4) 1.3 (1.2–1.6) |
1.3 (0.3) 1.2 (1.1–1.4) |
1.5 (0.4) 1.5 (1.3–1.8) |
<0.001 |
| Potassium intake >3.5g/day N (%) #### | 36 (19.0%) | 22 (22.2%) | 14 (15.6%) | 0.244 |
| Na/K molar ratio ## | 2.77 (0.87) 2.75 (2.16–3.36) |
3.07 (0.83) 3.03 (2.37–3.71) |
2.43 (0.80) 2.30 (1.91–2.93) |
<0.001 |
Results are mean (SD) and median (25th–75th percentile) or N (%), # Mann-Whitney test, ## Student’s t-test, ### Fisher’s exact test, #### Pearson chi2 test, * comparison between sexes.