People in Shanxi Province who are hospitalized with high blood pressure are peeing out about 11.5 grams of salt every day — that’s roughly two teaspoons of table salt.

In hospitalized adults in Shanxi Province with high blood pressure, people who excrete more salt in their urine tend to have higher blood pressure numbers, even when you account for their age, weight, gender, and whether they smoke.

In Shanxi Province, men with high blood pressure tend to pee out more salt than women with high blood pressure, even though they both pee out similar amounts of potassium—this suggests men might be eating more salt or keeping more salt in their bodies than women.

If you're a hospitalized adult with high blood pressure in Shanxi, the amount of salt in your morning pee is a good guess for how much salt you passed all day — so doctors might just need your morning sample instead of collecting all day's urine.

In people in Shanxi Province with high blood pressure, those who excrete more sodium in their urine tend to have higher blood pressure readings, and this link is even stronger in women, which might mean salt affects women’s blood pressure more than men’s.

In hospitalized adults with high blood pressure in Shanxi, people who have more salt in their morning urine tend to have higher blood pressure numbers, even when you account for their age, weight, gender, or whether they smoke.