Dietary sodium, table salt use, and specific depressive symptoms: cross-sectional associations in NHANES and an independent Chinese clinical cohort.

Front Nutr · 2026 · PMC13310660 · PMID 42375781

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did not reach statistical significanceP = 0.20not close (p > 0.1)

In the independent Chinese clinical cohort from Gansu, the same model showed a similar direction: somatic symptom scores increased by 0.49 points (β = 0.49, 95% CI: 0.02–0.96, P = 0.041), whereas cognitive symptom scores increased by 0.34 points but did not reach statistical significance (95% CI: -0.17–0.84, P = 0.20).

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In the Gansu cohort, numerically larger estimates were observed for several symptoms, although these associations should be interpreted cautiously because they were nominally significant before multiple-testing correction.

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