DASH score and blood pressure. Specifically, nutrition knowledge is a
marker of education attainment and other cognitive skills that were
not fully captured in these analyses.
Strengths of the study include that all workplaces had similar characteristics
as they were all manufacturing workplaces with similar
work schedules. Employees' had comparable demographics, health
status and lifestyle characteristics. BMI, BP, central obesity and urinary
sodium were objectively measured by trained research assistants according
to the SOP manual (Geaney et al., 2013b). The use of 24-hour
ambulatory BP monitoring would have however provided a more accurate
measure of the employees' BP throughout the day while at work
and at home. Therewas littlemissing data for all variables besides alcohol
consumption but given that this datawas collectedwithin theworkplace,
employeesmay have been reluctant to report their alcohol intake.