Sodium Intake in Ecuadorian Population

Universidad San Francisco de Quito

Status: Completed

Conditions: Nutritional Disorder; Dietary Habits; Risk Factor, Cardiovascular

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Urinary sodium excretion

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03154502

HUBI-1022

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is aim to determine the sodium intake in Ecuadorian population that is an unknown information at present. For that, 24h urine samples will be collected from 130 subjects working either at tue USFQ or HDLV to measure sodium excretion.

Enrollment: 130 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 25 to 64 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• None

Exclusion criteria

• unable to provide informed consent
• unable to provide 24-hr urine excretion sample
• those with a known history of heart or kidney failure, stroke, and liver disease
• those using diuretics, multivitamins, NSADs, or prostaglandins during the last two weeks
• pregnant women