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Article: You Can Lower the Blood Pressure 10 mm Hg with Diet Alone!
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- Internal Medicine Alert
- Article date:
- February 28, 2001
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You Can Lower the Blood Pressure 10 mm Hg with Diet Alone!
Abstract & Commentary
Synopsis: The DASH diet combined with low sodium intake can lower systolic blood pressure more than 10 mm Hg after only 30 days.
Source: Sacks FM, et al. N Engl J Med 2001;344:3-10.
The dietary approaches to stop hypertension (dash) trial demonstrated that a diet that emphasizes fruits, vegetables, and low-fat dairy products, that includes whole grains, poultry, fish and nuts, that contains small amounts of red meat, sweets, and sugar-containing beverages, and that contains decreased amounts of total and saturated fat and cholesterol, lowers blood pressure ...