The Predictors of High Dietary Salt Intake among Hypertensive Patients in Iran

Table 2

Distribution of frequency and percentage of patient blood pressure based on sex sodium intake.

	All N = 205			Women 129(62.9)			Men 76(37.1)
Sodium intake^a	<2000	2000–3000	>3000	<2000	2000–3000	>3000	<2000	2000–3000	>3000
Blood pressure^b
Normotensive (<140/90)	26 (18.4)	33 (23.4)	82 (58.2)	15 (14.9)	22 (21.8)	64 (63.4)	11 (27.5)	11 (27.5)	18 (45.0)
Borderline^c	7 (16.3)	13 (30.2)	23 (5.53)	0 (0.0)	5 (26.3)	14 (7.73)	7 (29.2)	8 (33.3)	9 (5.37)
Hypertensive (≥140/90)	4 (19.0)	5 (23.8)	12 (57.1)	7 (16.3)	3 (3.33)	4 (4.44)	2 (7.16)	2 (7.16)	8 (7.66)
	0.929^d			0.226^d			0.651^d

^amgr, ^bsystolic/diastolic, ^cborderline = systolic ≤ 140 and diastolic > 90, systolic > 140 and diastolic ≤ 90, and ^d value derived from chi-squared test.