http://www.healio.com/cardiology/vascular-medicine/news/online/%7Bcf1e66df-20e4-4636-8607-6b7e733750b4%7D/dash-diet-effective-for-bp-reduction?ecp-=8F2F33F5-5D85-478C-9488-6CBD7C66D00C
Hawkins C, et al. Hypertension. 2016;doi:10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.115.06853.
While many dietary interventions are associated with reductions in BP, the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension diet may product the greatest decline, according to new research published in Hypertension.
The median age of participants was 45 years. Only 10 studies reported information on race/ethnicity; in those studies, the majority of patients were white.
The combined net effect of dietary intervention on systolic BP and diastolic BP was –3.07 mm Hg (95% CI, –3.85 to–2.30) and –1.81 mm Hg (95% CI, –2.24 to –1.38), respectively. The largest net reduction of –7.62 mm Hg (95% CI, –9.95 to –5.29) for systolic BP and –4.22 mm Hg (95% CI, –5.87 to –2.57) for diastolic BP was observed with the DASH diet.
Other dietary approaches, including low-sodium, low-sodium/high-potassium, low-sodium/low-calorie and low-calorie diets, also produced significant reductions in systolic and diastolic BP. Adherence to the Mediterranean diet, however, was associated with reduced diastolic BP (–1.44 mm Hg [95% CI, –2.11 to –0.76]), but not systolic BP.
In subgroup analyses, those participants with pre-existing hypertension experienced larger net reductions in systolic BP (P = .03) and diastolic BP (P = .02) compared with participants with normal BP. Greater reductions in both net systolic BP (P = .01) and diastolic BP (P = .008) were also observed among participants who were not taking antihypertensive medications compared with those prescribed antihypertensive medications. Another difference of note was smaller net effects observed in groups with follow-up longer than 24 months and in larger-sized trials, according to the researchers. The largest BP reductions were observed in trials that included fewer than 100 participants.
Although the reductions in BP may seem small, “the pooled results were incremental BP reductions experienced by those groups adopting dietary interventions [and] even relatively small reductions in BP can dramatically reduce the incidence of CVD and mortality,” the researchers wrote.
They concluded that while all dietary interventions reduced BP, some, like the DASH diet, were more effective than the others, and suggested that certain approaches should be targeted for specific populations.
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