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- Title
Oral health behavior as a risk factor for high urinary sodium among Korean women.
- Authors
Kyungdo Han; NamRyang Kim; Youngkyung Ko; Yong-Gyu Park; Jun-Beom Park; Han, Kyungdo; Kim, NamRyang; Ko, Youngkyung; Park, Yong-Gyu; Park, Jun-Beom
- Abstract
<bold>Background and Objectives: </bold>The purpose of the present study was to investigate the association between urinary sodium, urinary sodium/creatinine, and urinary sodium/urine specific gravity and oral health behavior using nationally representative data.<bold>Methods and Study Design: </bold>Data from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey were used; the sample analyzed in this study consisted a total of 15,013 respondents over 19 years old who had no missing values for the urinalysis or outcome variables. Urinary sodium was significantly lower in fem ales (p<0.05).<bold>Results: </bold>The rate of hypertension and diabetes was significantly lower in women (p<0.05). Adjusted odds ratios of urinary sodium and their 95% confidence intervals in relation to the frequency of tooth brushing (≤1, 2, and ≥3 times per day, respectively) were 1, 0.898 (0.704, 1.145), and 0.734 (0.573, 0.939) for women (p<0.05). This association between sodium uptake and oral health behavior was independent of various potential confounding factors such as age, body mass index, smoking, drinking, exercise, diabetes, and hypertension.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>Poor oral health behavior was associated with higher sodium consumption in women. Oral health behavior may be considered an independent risk indicator for high urinary sodium in Korean women.
- Subjects
KOREA; SOUTH Korea; NUTRITION &; oral health; SODIUM in the body; URINALYSIS; HYPERTENSION; BODY mass index; WOMEN; CONFIDENCE intervals; CREATININE; HEALTH behavior; SPECIFIC gravity; ORAL hygiene; QUESTIONNAIRES; SODIUM; ODDS ratio
- Publication
Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2018, Vol 27, Issue 3, p671
- ISSN
0964-7058
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.6133/apjcn.012018.01