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ORIGINAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATION |
1 From the Departments of Foods and Nutrition (KW, CP, LAJ, BRM, and CMW) and of Statistics (LDM and GPM), Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, and the Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN (MP and JHP).
2 Supported by Public Health Service grant no. HD36609, the Swedish Research Council for Engineering Sciences, and the Hellmuth Hertz Foundation.
3 Address reprint requests to CM Weaver, Department of Foods and Nutrition, Purdue University, 700 West State Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2059. E-mail: weavercm{at}purdue.edu.
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ABSTRACT |
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Objective: The study reported here was undertaken to compare racial differences in calcium retention as a function of dietary salt intake.
Design: A total of 35 adolescent girls (22 black and 13 white) participated in two 20-d metabolic summer camps, separated by 2 wk, that simulated a free-living environment. The effect of changes in dietary sodium on calcium retention was tested in a randomized-order, crossover design with 2 concentrations of sodium—1.30 g/d (57 mmol/d) and 3.86 g/d (168 mmol/d)—and a constant calcium intake of 815 mg/d (20 mmol/d).
Results: Both race and sodium intake significantly affected calcium retention (P < 0.01). Calcium retention was significantly greater in black girls than in white girls, regardless of dietary sodium intake (P < 0.001). The high-sodium diet significantly reduced calcium retention in both whites and blacks (P < 0.01), primarily through a decrease in net calcium absorption. Black girls excreted significantly less calcium in the urine than did white girls, regardless of diet (P < 0.05).
Conclusions: Calcium retention is significantly greater in black girls than in white girls but is significantly reduced in girls of both races in response to salt loading.
Key Words: Race • calcium retention • urinary calcium • dietary sodium • bone turnover • metabolic study • female adolescents
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INTRODUCTION |
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Race is also a major determinant of calcium retention. Black adolescents were shown to retain more calcium than did white adolescents who had the same calcium intake (18). Studies have shown that blacks have significantly higher bone mineral density and bone mineral content than do whites, both as adults (19, 20) and as children (21, 22), although not all studies agree with the latter finding (23). Racial differences in the effect of dietary sodium on calcium excretion and calcium retention have not been studied. The purpose of the current study was to ascertain the effect of dietary sodium on calcium retention, calcium homeostasis, and biochemical markers of bone turnover in black and white adolescent girls.
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SUBJECTS AND METHODS |
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Subjects were matched so that average postmenarcheal age, height, and weight were equal between the 2 races. Menarcheal age on day 1 of the study was ascertained by using questionnaires. The girls who had not reached menarche by the time of the study were contacted later by telephone. Height was determined by using a scale (Detecto-Medic, Brooklyn, NY). Weight was measured by using a calibrated electronic scale. The criterion for race was that all 4 of a girl’s grandparents were of the same race. Before the study, each participant completed six 24-h dietary recalls. The food records were evaluated by a dietitian and analyzed with the use of NUTRITIONIST IV DIET ANALYSIS software (version 4.1; First Databank Division, San Bruno, CA).
Exclusionary criteria included age < 10 y or > 15 y and a body mass index (in kg/m2) below the 15th or above the 85th percentile for age. Subjects with a history of postmenarcheal amenorrhea, pregnancy, abortion, eating disorder, use of oral contraceptive, or tobacco use were also excluded. Health status was assessed from a questionnaire and physical examination.
Written informed consent was obtained from all studies. All subjects were studied under protocols approved by the Use of Human Subjects Research Committee of Purdue University.
Measurements
The diet consisted of 4-d cycle menus. Low-sodium soups made at the study site and Gatorade (low-sodium formula; Quaker Oats Company, Chicago, IL) were used to achieve the 2 intakes of dietary sodium. The high-sodium diet was achieved by adding salt to the low-sodium soups to provide 2 g sodium/d (87 mmol/d) and to low-sodium Gatorade to provide 0.86 g sodium/d (37 mmol/d). Duplicate composites of each day’s diet were prepared and stored at –10 °C before analysis of nutrients. Twenty-four-hour urine and fecal samples were analyzed separately for minerals. Samples and dietary composites were measured for calcium and sodium by using atomic absorption spectroscopy (5100 PC; Perkin Elmer, Norwalk, CT). Measurements of creatinine were used to correct the urine sample to a 24-h period and to determine compliance. Urinary creatinine was measured by using an automated colorimetric method on a spectrophotometer (Cobas Mira Systems; Roche Diagnostic Systems, F Hoffmann-LaRoche, Basel, Switzerland). Polyethylene glycol (MW 
3400; Dow Chemical Co, Midland, MI) was used to monitor fecal compliance. Polyethylene glycol was analyzed by using a turbidometric method (24). Two gelatin capsules containing 0.5 g polyethylene glycol were administered with each meal. Daily calcium retention was calculated as the 24-h calcium intake minus the 24-h urinary and fecal calcium excretion. For days when there were no stools, periods between stools were divided by the appropriate number of days. Body weight was recorded daily. Fat mass and lean body mass were determined by using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (Lunar Prodigy, Madison, WI). Tanner score was determined with subjects’ self-assessment of breast and pubic hair stage (25). Total-body 24-h sweat was extracted from clothing and collected from a body scrubdown procedure after 14 d of acclimatization and adaptation to the diet as previously described (26). Fasting serum was analyzed for calcium, sodium, 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D [1,25(OH)2D], osteocalcin, bone alkaline phosphatase, and parathyroid hormone as described previously (18). Insulin-like growth factor I and insulin-like growth factor–binding protein 3 were analyzed by radioimmunoassay as previously described (18). Fasting and 24-h urinary N-telopeptides of type I collagen were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay on a monoclonal antibody to human cross-linked N-telopeptides (Osteomark; Ostex International Inc, Seattle, WA).
Statistical analysis
A mixed-model analysis of variance was used in analyzing the data to allow for examination of the effects of race and diet and possible race x diet interactions (27). Statistical significance was set at P < 0.05. All statistical analyses were done by using SAS software (version 8.2; SAS Institute, Cary, NC). Of the 40 girls recruited to the study, 16 black and 7 white girls completed both balance periods, 6 black and 6 white girls completed one balance period only, 3 girls left after a few days because of homesickness, 1 black girl was sent home because of poor health, and 1 white girl was excluded after admitting that her racial background was mixed. For statistical inferences that include the data shown in the figures presented with this report, we used all available data (22 blacks and 13 whites).
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). Calcium retention with the low- and high-sodium diets was 453 ± 34 and 359 ± 34 mg/d, respectively, among the blacks and 235 ± 65 and 189 ± 72 mg/d, respectively, among the whites. The black girls retained 1.9 times more calcium than did the white girls, regardless of diet (Table 2 and Figure 1). The average racial difference in calcium retention was > 170 mg/d (4.2 mmol/d), regardless of sodium intake (Table 2, Figure 1). Calcium retention with high-sodium intake was 94 mg/d (2.4 mmol/d) and 46 mg/d (1.2 mmol/d) lower in the blacks and the whites, respectively, than it was with low-sodium intake. Average daily calcium retention in the blacks was significantly (P < 0.001) higher than that in the whites at both intakes of dietary sodium (Table 2 and Figure 1). Both the black and the white subjects had significantly (P < 0.01) more calcium retention with the low-sodium diet than with the high-sodium diet (Table 2 and Figure 1). Thus, both race and diet had a significant influence on calcium retention, but the effect of race was greater. No significant race x diet interaction was detected.
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and Figure 2). A significant race x diet interaction was also detected (P < 0.05). The higher sodium intake resulted in a significantly (P < 0.05) higher concentration of urinary calcium in the whites but not in the blacks. Adaptation to dietary sodium occurred within 5 d. Blacks had significantly (P < 0.05) less urinary sodium excretion than did whites when consuming the high-sodium diet, but not when consuming the low-sodium diet (Table 2 and Figure 3). Blacks had significantly (P < 0.01) lower concentrations of fecal calcium, which resulted from higher net intestinal calcium absorption, than did whites, regardless of diet (Table 2). Blacks had significantly (P < 0.01) higher fecal sodium excretion than did the whites when consuming the high-sodium diet, but not when consuming the low-sodium, diet, as previously reported by Palacios et al (28) (Table 2). There were no significant differences in 24-h sweat calcium excretion in this study (Table 1) that were due to diet or race, as previously reported (26). The mean habitual dietary calcium intake (Table 1), calculated from six 24-h dietary recalls before the study, was 277 mg/d (7 mmol/d) lower in the blacks than in the whites (P < 0.05).
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). A diet effect on 1,25(OH)2D concentrations was also observed: 1,25(OH)2D was significantly (P < 0.05) lower in both the black and the white girls when consuming the low-sodium diet. There were no significant race or diet effects on the concentrations of serum calcium, sodium, insulin-like growth factor I, insulin-like growth factor–binding protein, or parathyroid hormone or on biochemical markers of bone turnover, eg, serum osteocalcin, bone alkaline phosphatase, or 24-h urinary N-telopeptide (Table 2). |
DISCUSSION |
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62 g (1.6 mmol), whereas bone densitometry in our study found a radial difference of 38 g/d (1.0 mmol). The smaller racial difference in observed total-body calcium can be explained by the lower calcium intakes of the black girls when consuming their habitual diets. The peak rate of bone accretion in white girls occurs between the ages of 12 and 14 y (29); the mean age of the white girls in this study was at the midpoint of this range (ie, 13 y). Both races retained less calcium at high intakes of dietary sodium, but the racial difference in calcium retention was nearly twice the difference due to diet. The greater retention of calcium by the black adolescent girls than by the white adolescent girls was due to greater absorption of calcium, less excretion of urinary calcium, and greater rates of bone formation than of bone resorption (18). The study reported here showed less fecal calcium excretion in the blacks than in the whites, which is consistent with the former group’s higher calcium absorption. The racial difference in calcium retention among adolescents leads to significantly higher bone mass in black adults than in white adults (19, 20).
Reduced calcium retention with increasing dietary salt was likely due largely to reduced calcium absorption in both races and partially due to increased urinary excretion of calcium in whites. The higher net calcium absorption with lower salt intake in our study did not achieve significance because of the variation in fecal calcium, and the effect of dietary salt on calcium absorption should be quantified with more sensitive calcium tracer techniques. The earlier cross-sectional study in adolescents used 24-h urine collection in 370 adolescent white girls to predict the effect of urinary sodium and urinary calcium (16). When we used the same linear regression equation as was used in that study, the difference in urinary calcium calculated from the obtained difference in urinary sodium excretion in our study [
2.56 g (111 mmol)], which was also described by Palacios et al (28), was predicted to be 52 mg (1.3 mmol). Thus, predicting the effect of dietary salt on urinary calcium from cross-sectional analysis overestimates the actual effect in white adolescents by 1.4-fold. In contrast, in the current study, the blacks excreted significantly less urinary calcium while consuming a high-sodium diet than did the whites. The difference in urinary calcium excretion between low-sodium and high-sodium diets [ 2.56 g (111 mmol)] was 3 mg/d (0.1 mmol/d) in the blacks. With the use of the same linear regression equation (16), the predicted effect of dietary salt on urinary calcium would have overestimated the effect even more in the blacks. The finding that increased dietary sodium led to increased urinary calcium in the white but not in the black adolescent girls indicated a possible genetic predisposition in whites for a greater effect of salt on the kidneys.
The greater sodium retention in blacks consuming a high-sodium diet that was observed in the current study was described previously by Palacios et al (28). We found that the higher sodium retention reflected in the lower urinary sodium output was not due to differences in fecal or sweat sodium excretion. We hypothesized that, because we observed no weight gain or increase in blood pressure to have resulted from the unexpectedly high sodium retention, sodium might have been temporarily deposited into the bones during this short pubertal growth period, as previously suggested by Palacios et al (28). Such an occurrence would be similar to results with calcium that are due to the higher rate of bone turnover found in blacks (18). In our study, the lack of a racial difference in urinary sodium excretion with the low-sodium diet, accompanied by significantly less urinary calcium excretion in the blacks, suggests that racial differences in calcium retention and sodium retention and excretion are unrelated. However, at high sodium intakes, we did observe significant effects of race (P < 0.001) and diet (P < 0.01) on calcium retention.
Although, before the current study, blacks appeared to consume less calcium before the study and had a higher 1,25(OH)2D concentration than did whites, these variables did not predict calcium retention in these subjects and therefore do not offer an explanation for the racial difference in calcium retention that we found. In a previous study of calcium balance, we predicted a cumulative adult racial difference of 12% in the bone mass of black and white women (18), which would be consistent with the 10–13% higher adult bone density previously reported in black women than in white women (19, 20). If dietary salt were reduced from the higher to the lower intakes used in the current study [ 2.56 g Na/d (111 mmol Na/d)], the expected additional annual bone gain from the baseline total-body bone calcium content due to increased calcium retention would be 4% for black girls and 2% for white girls during their peak growth spurt. Bailey et al (29) estimated that modification of another lifestyle factor, physical activity, could increase total-body bone mineral content by 11% at 1 y after the peak in accretion rates (at age 12.5 y) in white girls. Although race (the strongest predictor of bone mass), diet, and physical activity play important roles in maximizing bone mass during peak bone accretion, dietary sodium may also affect bone development, but in whites more than in blacks.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
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CMW, MP, JHP, and GPM were responsible for the design of the study. KW, CP, LAJ, and BRM were responsible for the conduct of the study and data collection. GMP, KW, CP, BRM, and LDM were responsible for data analysis. KW, CMW, MP, and JHP were responsible for manuscript preparation. None of the authors had a personal or financial conflict of interest.
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; n = 19 for both diets) and white (•; n = 11 and 9 for the low- and high-sodium diets, respectively) adolescent girls who participated in the study. To convert the values for calcium retention to mmol/24 h, multiply by 0.02495. To convert the values for dietary sodium to mmol/24 h, multiply by 0.0435. Calcium retention was significantly greater in the blacks than in the whites with both the low-sodium (P < 0.001) and the high-sodium (P < 0.01) diet. There was no significant race x diet interaction. A mixed-model ANOVA was used to analyze the data.
