Association of the urinary sodium to urinary specific gravity ratio with metabolic syndrome in Korean children and adolescents: The Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2010-2013

Cheol Hwan So; Hwal Rim Jeong; Young Suk Shim

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0189934

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Association of the urinary sodium to urinary specific gravity ratio with metabolic syndrome in Korean children and adolescents: The Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2010-2013

Cheol Hwan So ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Cheol Hwan So, Hwal Rim Jeong

Roles Data curation, Software

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Wonkwang University School of Medicine, Iksan, Republic of Korea
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Hwal Rim Jeong ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Cheol Hwan So, Hwal Rim Jeong

Roles Investigation, Software

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Hallym University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Young Suk Shim

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: royjays0217@hallym.or.kr

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Hallym University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0850-5279

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Association of the urinary sodium to urinary specific gravity ratio with metabolic syndrome in Korean children and adolescents: The Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2010-2013

Cheol Hwan So,
Hwal Rim Jeong,
Young Suk Shim

Published: December 18, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0189934

About the Authors

Cheol Hwan So

Contributed equally to this work with: Cheol Hwan So, Hwal Rim Jeong

Roles Data curation, Software

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Wonkwang University School of Medicine, Iksan, Republic of Korea

Hwal Rim Jeong

Contributed equally to this work with: Cheol Hwan So, Hwal Rim Jeong

Roles Investigation, Software

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Hallym University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Young Suk Shim

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: royjays0217@hallym.or.kr

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Hallym University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0850-5279

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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