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

Table 3

24 hr urinary potassium (UK) excretion stratified by sex, age, and BMI.

Group	N	24 hr UK (mmol/day)	Std dev	value
(Sex)
Male	31	52.1	12.5	0.82
Female	36	52.9	13.4
(Age)
40–49	33	50.4	13.9	0.40
50–59	16	54.3	11.2
60 and above	18	54.9	12.4
(BMI)
<18	7	54.2	5.2	0.81
18–25	28	51.5	13.2
>25	32	53.5	14.1