Table 2 Twenty-four-hour urinary minerals and cardiometabolic biomarkers across person-visits of different drinking water sources.

From: Associations of drinking rainwater with macro-mineral intake and cardiometabolic health: a pooled cohort analysis in Bangladesh, 2016–2019

Twenty-four-hour urine minerals and cardiometabolic biomarkers

Rainwater (N = 1620 person-visits)

Pondwater (N = 2836 person-visits)

Coastal groundwater (N = 3225 person-visits)

Non-coastal groundwater (N = 1773 person-visits)

Urine Na (mmol/24 hours), mean (95% CI)

138.5 (134.7, 142.3)

159.6 (157.0, 162.2)

166.5 (164.0, 169.2)

135.2 (131.6, 138.8)

Urine chloride (mmol/24 hours), mean (95% CI)

147.7 (144.2, 151.1)

171.7 (168.9, 174.5)

175.4 (172.6, 178.3)

143.8 (139.7, 148.0)

Urine K (mmol/24 hours), mean (95% CI)

31.8 (31.1, 32.6)

33.5 (32.9, 34.0)

33.3 (32.8, 33.9)

23.9 (23.3, 24.5)

Urine Ca (mmol/24 hours), median (IQR)

2.7 (1.6–4.2)

3.3 (2.0–5.0)

3.6 (2.0–5.9)

2.1 (1.3–3.5)

Urine Mg (mmol/24 hours), mean (95% CI)

3.3 (3.2, 3.4)

3.8 (3.7, 3.9)

4.0 (3.9, 4.1)

3.0 (2.9, 3.1)

SBP (mm Hg), mean (95% CI)

114.2 (113.4, 115.0)

114.0 (113.4, 114.6)

111.2 (110.7, 111.8)

108.2 (107.5, 108.9)

DBP (mm Hg), mean (95% CI)

68.3 (67.8, 68.8)

68.1 (67.7, 68.5)

66.0 (65.6, 66.3)

66.6 (66.1, 67.1)

Urine total protein (mg/dl), median (IQR)

174.0 (98.6–278.9)

187.7 (102.9–320.2)

188.7 (111.4–294.5)

105.8 (55.8–177.3)

Fasting blood glucose (mmol/L), mean (95% CI)

6.6 (6.5, 6.8)

6.3 (6.2, 6.5)

5.3 (5.2, 5.5)

6.9 (6.8, 7.0)

Fasting triglycerides (mg/dl), median (IQR)

133 (87–196)

108 (72–167)

106 (69–178)

Fasting total cholesterol (mg/dl), mean (95% CI)

164.2 (155.9, 172.5)

145.4 (140.5, 150.2)

161.9 (158.3, 165.5)

HDL-C (mg/dl), mean (95% CI)

34.1 (32.6, 35.7)

37.3 (36.2, 38.4)

36.2 (35.5, 37.0)

  1. “—” biomarker not measured for non-coastal groundwater drinkers.
  2. CI confidence interval, IQR interquartile range, SBP systolic blood pressure, DBP diastolic blood pressure, HLD-C high-density lipoprotein cholesterol.