Estimation of the salt intake distribution of Dutch kidney transplant recipients using 24-h urinary sodium excretion:the potential of external within-person variance

BACKGROUND: There is growing interest in assessing a population's prevalence of inadequate nutrient intake using biomarkers. However, within-person variation is generally ignored because repeated data collections are considered costly and burdensome. OBJECTIVES: The study aimed to show the importance of estimating, from repeated 24-h urine collections, a population's habitual salt intake and to explore the potential of using the ratio of within-person variance to total variance from an external source (W:T variance) with single 24-h urine collection. METHODS: Salt intake was predicted from dat... Mehr ...