Affiliation:
1. Denizli State Hospital
2. Gazi University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology
3. Baskent University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Nephrology and Transplantation
Abstract
Aim: To evaluate the relationship between high sodium intake determined by spot urinary sodium excretion with metabolic syndrome, hypertension, and graft function in renal transplant (RT) recipients.
Materials and methods: 152 RT recipients were enrolled. The demographic characteristics, office blood pressure (BP) values, height, weight, body mass index, waist and hip measurements, immunesuppressive drugs, other medications and biochemical parameters of the patients were recorded. Spot urinary sodium and spot urinary protein excretions were measured in the first morning urine in all the RT recipients. The patients were grouped as low sodium excretion (≤57) and high sodium excretion (≥58) based on the median value of 57 in spot urinary sodium.
Results: In the low sodium group; creatinine values were found to be significantly lower (p
Publisher
Turkish Journal of Clinics and Laboratory
Subject
Applied Mathematics,General Mathematics