OBJECTIVE To determine the effects of dietary patterns on blood pressure in subgroups. METHODS Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) was a randomized controlled feeding study conducted at 4 academic medical centers. Participants were 459 adults with untreated systolic blood pressure less than 160 mm Hg and diastolic blood pressure 80 to 95 mm Hg. For 3 weeks, participants were fed a ...

High blood pressure increases the risks of stroke, dementia, and neurocognitive dysfunction. Although aerobic exercise and dietary modifications have been shown to reduce blood pressure, no randomized trials have examined the effects of aerobic exercise combined with dietary modification on neurocognitive functioning in individuals with high blood pressure (ie, prehypertension and stage 1 hyper...

The scientific community has become increasingly interested in the overall quality of diets rather than in single food-based or single nutrient-based approaches to examine diet-disease relationships. Despite the plethora of indices used to measure diet quality, there still exist questions as to which of these can best predict health outcomes. The present study aimed to compare the ability of fi...

Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension Diet (DASH Diet) merupakan cara diet sehat yang ditujukan untuk membantu terapi atau mencegah hipertensi (tekanan darah tinggi). Dengan DASH diet, maka anda akan mengurangi asupan sodium (garam) dalam makanan serta memperbanyak variasi mengandung zat-zat gizi bermanfaat menurunkan tekanan darah, seperti potassium, kalsium dan magnesium. Penelitian ini men...

Diet has long been identified as a major determinant of cardiovascular and other chronic diseases. In this study, we assess the relation between adherence to different dietary patterns biochemical metabolic parameters well 10-year risk diseases (CVDs) in community blood donors Northern Italy. We their four patterns, namely, Dietary Approach Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet, Mediterranean diet thro...