Estimation of urinary sodium excretion by tanaka and kawasaki equations in afro-descendants
International Journal of Development Research
Estimation of urinary sodium excretion by tanaka and kawasaki equations in afro-descendants
Received 11th June 2020; Received in revised form 29th July 2020; Accepted 14th August 2020; Published online 30th September 2020
Copyright © 2020, Wellington Manoel da Silva et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Objective: To evaluate the mean urinary sodium excretion and its difference by sex by Kawasaki and Tanaka equations in an isolated urine sample in afro-descendants from Alcântara-MA. Material and Method: Cross-sectional study, conducted between August 2012 and August 2013, with collection of demographic, socioeconomic, lifestyle, blood pressure measurement, blood and urine samples. Results: Female predominance 51.20%, men were younger 31.57% and 74.78% had less than eight years of schooling, 99.56% belonged to social classes D and E. 56.11% received less than one minimum wage, 10.89% smoked and 53.01%, (p-value <0.001), did not consume alcohol or had stopped. The mean urinary sodium excretion in an isolated sample for the Kawasaki equation was 203.2 mmol/L ± 84.9 mmol/L and 150.7 mmol/L ± 47.3 mmol/L for the Tanaka equation. The difference in the estimation of sodium excretion between both was 52.5 mmol/L ± 40.5 mmol/L. Conclusion: In this study, the Kawasaki equation presents higher mean excretion values when compared to the Tanaka equation; however, the Tanaka equation tends to underestimate the mean excretion value for men.
