Dietary Reference Intakes For Potassium

In its application of the recommendations in the guiding principles for developing dietary reference intakes based on.

Dietary reference intakes for potassium. Health and medicine division. Table 1 dietary reference intakes for potassium by life stage group dri values g day aia ulb life stage groupc 0 through 6 mo 0 4 7 through 12 mo 0 7 1 through 3 y 3 0 4 through 8 y 3 8 9 through 13 y 4 5 14 through 18 y 4 7 19 through 30 y 4 7 31 through 50 y 4 7 51 through 70 y 4 7 70 y 4 7 pregnancy â 18 y 4 7 19 through 50 y 4 7. The report reaffirms the sodium ai for individuals ages 14 50 decreases the sodium ais for children age 1 13 increases the sodium ais for adults ages 51 and.

Dietary reference intakes for sodium and potassium. Committee to review the dietary reference intakes for sodium and potassium. Oria m harrison m stallings va editors.

Intake recommendations for potassium and other nutrients are provided in the dietary reference intakes dris developed by expert committees of the national academies of sciences engineering and medicine nasem. Anderson associate professor department of. Cortner endowed chair in gastroenterology and nutrition children s hospital of philadelphia philadelphia pa.

Dietary reference intakes for sodium and potassium potassium and sodium are interrelated essential nutrients that play vital roles in the body to maintain physiological homeostasis. Dietary reference intakes for sodium and potassium revises the adequate intakes ais which are the best estimate of intakes assumed to be adequate in apparently healthy individuals. National academies of sciences engineering and medicine.

This chapter presents the evidence on indicators that could potentially inform the potassium dietary reference intakes dris based on chronic disease and the committee s determination regarding its ability to establish a potassium chronic disease risk reduction intake cdrr. Both nutrients have been linked to risk of chronic disease particularly cardiovascular disease. Food and nutrition board.

The unique nature of potassium and sodium that is the coexistence of their essentiality with a relationship to adverse health effects including chronic disease risk necessitated a new approach to the review of intake recommendations for these nutrients within the dietary reference intakes dris context. Stallings chair professor of pediatrics university of pennsylvania perelman school of medicine director nutrition center jean a. This new report the sixth in a series of reports presenting dietary reference values for the intakes of nutrients by.