Sodium Intake and Mortality in the NHANES II Follow-up Study

Age-sex adjusted rates of CVD and all-cause mortality events per 1000 persons by sodium category, without weighting. Numbers of events are in parentheses. †To convert values to mmol per day divide by 23.

Hazard ratios of CVD mortality for sodium intake <2300 mg in selected subgroups estimated by Cox models adjusting for age, sex, race, smoking, alcohol use, systolic blood pressure, anti-hypertensive treatment, body mass index, education < high school, physical activity, calories, dietary potassium, history of diabetes, serum cholesterol except for the factor defining the subgroup. ⁎ Denotes median values.