Belle, F.N.; Schindera, C.; Guessous, I.; Popovic, M.B.; Ansari, M.; Kuehni, C.E.; Bochud, M. Sodium and Potassium Intakes and Cardiovascular Risk Profiles in Childhood Cancer Survivors: The SCCSS-Nutrition Study. Nutrients2020, 12, 57.
Belle, F.N.; Schindera, C.; Guessous, I.; Popovic, M.B.; Ansari, M.; Kuehni, C.E.; Bochud, M. Sodium and Potassium Intakes and Cardiovascular Risk Profiles in Childhood Cancer Survivors: The SCCSS-Nutrition Study. Nutrients 2020, 12, 57.
Belle, F.N.; Schindera, C.; Guessous, I.; Popovic, M.B.; Ansari, M.; Kuehni, C.E.; Bochud, M. Sodium and Potassium Intakes and Cardiovascular Risk Profiles in Childhood Cancer Survivors: The SCCSS-Nutrition Study. Nutrients2020, 12, 57.
Belle, F.N.; Schindera, C.; Guessous, I.; Popovic, M.B.; Ansari, M.; Kuehni, C.E.; Bochud, M. Sodium and Potassium Intakes and Cardiovascular Risk Profiles in Childhood Cancer Survivors: The SCCSS-Nutrition Study. Nutrients 2020, 12, 57.
Abstract
Risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), common in childhood cancer survivors (CCSs), may be affected by diet. We assessed sodium (Na) and potassium (K) intake, estimated from food frequency questionnaires (FFQs) and morning urine spots, and its associations with cardiovascular risk in CCSs. We stratified CCS into three risk profiles based on A) personal history (CVD, CVD risk factors, or CVD risk free), B) body mass index (obese, overweight, or normal/underweight), and C) cardiotoxic treatment (anthracyclines and/or chest irradiation, or neither). We obtained a FFQ from 802, and sent a spot urine sample collection kit to 212, of which 111 (52%) returned. We estimated Na intake 2.9 g/day based on spot urine and 2.8 g/day based on FFQ; estimated K intake was 1.6 g/day (spot urine) and 2.7 g/day (FFQ). CCSs with CVD risk factors had a slightly higher Na intake (3.3 g/day), than CCSs risk free (2.9 g/day) or with CVD (2.7 g/day, p = 0.017), and obese participants had higher Na intake (4.2 g/day) than normal/underweight CCSs (2.7 g/day, p<0.001). Daily Na intake was above, and daily K intake below national recommended levels. Adult survivors of childhood cancer need dietary assistance to reduce Na and increase K intake.
Keywords
sodium; potassium; nutrition; diet; urine spot; food frequency questionnaire; cardiovascular disease; childhood cancer survivors; Swiss childhood cancer registry; Europe
Subject
Medicine and Pharmacology, Dietetics and Nutrition
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