age- and sex-specific daily dietary sodium intake of adults participating in the shandong-ministry of health action on salt reduction and hypertension baseline survey in shandong province,china,2011.[A tabular version of this figure is also available.]
Overall, most dietary sodium () came from condiments,including salt,added during the cooking process. The mean daily sodium intake from condiments added at cooking was 4640 mg(). Among condiments added at cooking,salt was the leading source() of sodium. The daily average sodium consumption from processed food was 582 mg () and accounted for 10.1%() of the total sodium intake (table 3).
The mean 24-hour urinary sodium excretion was 5398 mg ()(table 3). We found no difference between rural and urban residents in 24-hour urinary sodium excretion (p=.08); men excreted more sodium than women (p=.002)(Table 3). Overall, the sodium intake estimated by dietary recall was significantly correlated with urinary sodium excretion (r=0.16;P