INS and gastric cancer: KNHANES also reported that the obesity risk significantly increased in subjects aged 19 years or higher in proportion to their sodium intake.[1] Therefore, a high sodium intake may closely be associated with obesity, asthma, kidney stones, osteoporosis, and gastric cancer among children and adolescence.[22] Similar to other studies, BP, insulin, LDLc, and TG/HDLc ratio significantly increased, however, the HDL proportionally decreased with obesity.