Author Question: In a healthy individual with a daily requirement of 500 mg sodium, what would be the sodium balance ... (Read 28 times)

stevenposner · **on:** Aug 20, 2018

In a healthy individual with a daily requirement of 500 mg sodium, what would be the sodium balance after an intake of 10 g of common salt?

a. Balanced
b. Slight positive balance
c. Strong positive balance
d. Slight negative balance
e. Strong negative balance

Question 2

Normally, what is the relationship of the amount of sodium excreted to the amount ingested that day?

a. Intake is higher.
b. Excretion is higher.
c. Intake and excretion are equal.
d. Excretion is unrelated to intake.
e. At extremes of intake, they are unrelated; at normal intake, intake is greater than excretion.