Self-monitoring urinary salt excretion device can be used for controlling hypertension for developing countries.

摘要: Restriction of dietary salt is widely recommended in the management hypertension, but assessment individual intake has drawn little attention. Monitoring nutritional through sodium excretion been popular, because main route for (Na) urine. Nonetheless, direct measurement time consuming and lacks accuracy. To collect a 24-h urine measure content difficult method most patients. In this review paper, we would like to explore usefulness measuring urinary by using self-monitoring device at home. Measuring daily overnight home will be useful hypertension suitable each individual. From recent increase processed foods, term “salt intake” not accurately equal “sodium intake”. Devices have developed evaluated on their accuracy correlation with intake. They must handy, simple capable large populations monitoring guide restriction as well long-term effects