An Assessment of Usual Salt Intake among Older Normotensive Adults in Atonsu, a Suburb of Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana

Table 2

24 hr urinary sodium excretion (UNa) stratified by sex, age, and BMI.

Group	N	24 hr UNa (mmol/day)	Std dev	value
(Sex)
Male	31	154.2	27.3	0.73
Female	36	151.9	26.9
(Age)
40–49	33	151.9	27.0	0.35
50–59	16	147.1	18.9
60 and above	18	160.2	32.1
(BMI)
<18	7	151.4	26.9	0.99
18–25	28	153.3	28.2
>25	32	153.1	26.6