In hospitals in Shanxi, adults with high blood pressure who excrete more salt in their urine tend to have blood pressure that doesn’t drop enough at night, which might be bad for their heart.

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 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.

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 people with high blood pressure in Shanxi Province, those who excrete more sodium in their urine tend to have higher blood pressure—even when you account for things like age, weight, diabetes, and cholesterol—and this link is even stronger in women.