BACKGROUND The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet is widely promoted in the USA for the prevention and treatment of high blood pressure. It is high in fruit and vegetables, low-fat dairy and wholegrain foods and low in saturated fat and refined sugar. To our knowledge, the use of this dietary pattern has not been assessed in a free-living UK population. METHODS The DASH diet ...

BACKGROUND Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) has been shown to successfully reduce systolic (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) when evaluated in clinically controlled environments but there is a lack of information regarding the efficacy of the original DASH diet when it is applied in a free-living environment. PURPOSE To provide descriptive data as to the changes in blood ...

Metalevel tools can support the software development process by automating the design of taskand application-speci c tools. Dash is a metalevel tool that allows developers to generate domain-speci c knowledge-acquisition tools from domain ontologies. Domain specialists use the knowledge-acquisition tools generated by dash to instantiate the concepts and relationships de ned in the domain ontolo...

The first geometric-arithmetic index was introduced in the chemical theory as the summation of 2 du dv /(du  dv ) overall edges of the graph, where du stand for the degree of the vertex u. In this paper we give the expressions for computing the first geometric-arithmetic index of hexagonal systems and phenylenes and present new method for describing hexagonal system by corresponding a simple g...

HW/SW codesign tools are necessary to develop new processors in a short period of time, because both the hardware and a software development environment that includes a simulator, assembler, disassembler and compiler, need to be designed for the new processor. We have therefore develped C-DASH, a HW/SW codesign tool for designing processors. In addition, we have developed SSC-DASH (Server-Side ...

BACKGROUND Diagnosis and characterization of incisional hernia are often established by CT, which incurs radiation exposure and substantial cost in clinical practice. The purpose of this study was to determine the comparative effectiveness of surgeon-performed Dynamic Abdominal Sonography for Hernia (DASH) vs CT for incisional hernia evaluation. STUDY DESIGN Patients with previous abdominal o...

Objectives. To culturally adapt and translate the Disabilities of Arm, Shoulder, and Hand questionnaire into Hindi (DASH-H) and assess its reliability, validity, and responsiveness in adult patients with shoulder tendonitis. Study Design. Descriptive methodological research, using longitudinal design. Setting. Outpatient clinic. Participants. 30 adult patients aged 53.3 ± 6.9 y with shoulder te...