Medically reviewed by Karina Tolentino, RD Ninety percent of people in the United States eat too much salt, the body's main ...

Lindner et al. have screened the database of a Viennese intensive care unit (ICU) to determine the prevalence of hypernatremia, its impact on mortality, and whether it affects length of stay.

and the serum sodium level and urine output should be carefully monitored. The diagnosis of diabetes insipidus can be confirmed by continued hypotonic polyuria in the presence of hypernatremia and ...