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Article: DASH diet lowers blood pressure and lipid-induced oxidative stress in obesity.
- Article from:
- Heart Disease Weekly
- Article date:
- May 4, 2003
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2003 MAY 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The DASH diet lowered blood pressure and lipid-induced oxidative stress in obese patients.
"Evidence suggests that obesity may raise blood pressure (BP) through oxidative stress-sensitive mechanisms and that the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension combination diet (DASH-CD) may decrease BP by enhancing antioxidant capacity," investigators in the United States report.
"To address this question, 12 obese patients with high-normal-to-stage 1 hypertension (hypertensives) and 12 lean normotensives were studied on their usual diets and after following the DASH-CD and a low-antioxidant diet in random sequence for 4 ...