Fig. 1
From: Sodium intake in Germany estimated from sodium excretion measured in spot urine samples
Sodium intake estimates of adult Germans. Box-Whisker-Plot of daily sodium intake in mmol/d estimated from spot urines sampled in DEGS1 using methods published by Johner et al. (2014) [28, 36], Toft et al. (2014) [31], Brown et al. (2013) [35], Tanaka et al. (2002) [32] and Kawasaki et al. (1993) [33] for age groups and sex. Presented are medians, interquartile ranges (boxes), and the 5th and 95th percentiles (whiskers). Lines indicate values as proposed by the WHO (solid red line), D-A-CH (nutrition societies of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland) and IOM (dashed red line), and AHA (dash-and-dot red line)