Urine Osmolarity Essay

The raw data of urine osmolarity did not appear to be very different between the control and experimental group, which should have been assumed. Once the sample was subtracted from the baseline for each day, there was a way to compare the control days to the experimental days while accounting for daily fluctuations of urine osmolarity. The asparagus treatment did result in a much smaller difference between the baseline and sample collections (Figure 1.), even though this finding was not significant (p > 0.05; Table 2.). A greater variation in urine osmolarity would suggest that the individual was either creating more dilute or more concentrated urine. Of the four control days, there was only one day (Day 2) that the urine osmolarity became more concentrated (487.67 …show more content…
investigated asparagus’ effect on lowering blood pressure through inducing diuresis in individuals with hypertension. They found that asparagus was not a clinically useful hypertension treatment when compared to first-line diuretic that are much more efficient in lowering blood pressure by decreasing blood volume through diuresis.4 This study proved that asparagus is most likely not an effective clinical treatment for hypertension, but potentially it could be suggested as a dietary change that would positively impact a hypertensive patients management of their illness. For potential future experiments, it would be interesting to investigate if asparagus has a positive effect in managing hypertension in conjunction with other dietary and lifestyle changes in hypertensive patients. Asparagus could be given to some individuals with hypertension and then blood pressure and urine osmolarity could be collected to determine if asparagus is having a diuretic effect that decreases blood volume and subsequently blood pressure. This experiment could then build on the previous experiment by having a larger sample size, in order to better investigate asparagus’ diuretic