Association between Dietary Sodium Intake and Abdominal Obesity in Pre-diabetes Korean Adults

The objective of this study was to assess the relationship between dietary sodium intake and prevalence of abdominal obesity in Korean adults. We used data from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey V-1 and analyzed data on 4,475 Koreans ( years old). Subjects were divided into three groups according to fasting plasma glucose (FPG): 1) normal (FPG ), and 3) diabetes (FPG or subjects diagnosed with diabetes). The subjects in each category were stratified by dietary sodium intake as well as index of abdominal obesity. We found that dietary sodium intake was positively correlated with waist circumference (WC) (P