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Sodium and Bone Health: Impact of Moderately High and Low Salt Intakes on Calcium Metabolism in Postmenopausal Women1*

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Bone & Mineral Research, December 2009
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Title
Sodium and Bone Health: Impact of Moderately High and Low Salt Intakes on Calcium Metabolism in Postmenopausal Women1*
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Journal of Bone & Mineral Research, December 2009
DOI 10.1359/jbmr.080408
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Birgit Teucher, Jack R Dainty, Caroline A Spinks, Gosia Majsak‐Newman, David J Berry, Jurian A Hoogewerff, Robert J Foxall, Jette Jakobsen, Kevin D Cashman, Albert Flynn, Susan J Fairweather‐Tait

Abstract

High salt intake is a well-recognized risk factor for osteoporosis because it induces calciuria, but the effects of salt on calcium metabolism and the potential impact on bone health in postmenopausal women have not been fully characterized. This study investigated adaptive mechanisms in response to changes in salt and calcium intake in postmenopausal women. Eleven women completed a randomized cross-over trial consisting of four successive 5-wk periods of controlled dietary intervention, each separated by a minimum 4-wk washout. Moderately low and high calcium (518 versus 1284 mg) and salt (3.9 versus 11.2 g) diets, reflecting lower and upper intakes in postmenopausal women consuming a Western-style diet, were provided. Stable isotope labeling techniques were used to measure calcium absorption and excretion, compartmental modeling was undertaken to estimate bone calcium balance, and biomarkers of bone formation and resorption were measured in blood and urine. Moderately high salt intake (11.2 g/d) elicited a significant increase in urinary calcium excretion (p = 0.0008) and significantly affected bone calcium balance with the high calcium diet (p = 0.024). Efficiency of calcium absorption was higher after a period of moderately low calcium intake (p < 0.05) but was unaffected by salt intake. Salt was responsible for a significant change in bone calcium balance, from positive to negative, when consumed as part of a high calcium diet, but with a low calcium intake, the bone calcium balance was negative on both high and low salt diets.

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Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Unknown 119 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 22 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 21 17%
Student > Bachelor 18 15%
Researcher 9 7%
Other 8 7%
Other 20 16%
Unknown 25 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 33 27%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 16 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 14 11%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 6%
Chemistry 4 3%
Other 18 15%
Unknown 31 25%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 31. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 March 2023.
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#1,281,075
of 25,541,640 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Bone & Mineral Research
#303
of 4,800 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,989
of 177,663 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Bone & Mineral Research
#37
of 1,260 outputs
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