This Article  • Full text  • PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on ISI (1)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Related article  • Similar articles in JAMA  Topic Collections  • Nutritional and Metabolic Disorders  • Lipids and Lipid Disorders  • Hypertension  • Alert me on articles by topic  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Myron H. Weinberger, MD

JAMA. 2005;294:2497-2498.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text and any section headings.

Recent "feeding studies" in a highly selected population of participants who are prehypertensive and stage 1 hypertensive have demonstrated that a diet modestly reduced in salt content coupled with an increase in fresh fruits, vegetables, and low-fat dairy products (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension [DASH] diet) could lower blood pressure.¹ Such a diet, with increased potassium, calcium, and magnesium content in addition to the reduced sodium intake, provided confirmation of earlier studies that had focused on a single mineral component and had indicated that reducing sodium intake or increasing potassium intake, and less consistently, increasing calcium intake, could lower blood pressure. A subsequent study testing the effect of 3 levels of sodium intake (usual, modestly reduced, and greatly reduced) with the DASH diet provided evidence of a graded influence of dietary salt restriction on blood pressure.²

Concerns have been raised regarding the effect of dietary sodium . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Author Affiliation: Department of Medicine, Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati     What's this?

RELATED ARTICLE

Effects of Protein, Monounsaturated Fat, and Carbohydrate Intake on Blood Pressure and Serum Lipids: Results of the OmniHeart Randomized Trial
Lawrence J. Appel, Frank M. Sacks, Vincent J. Carey, Eva Obarzanek, Janis F. Swain, Edgar R. Miller, III, Paul R. Conlin, Thomas P. Erlinger, Bernard A. Rosner, Nancy M. Laranjo, Jeanne Charleston, Phyllis McCarron, Louise M. Bishop, and for the OmniHeart Collaborative Research Group
JAMA. 2005;294(19):2455-2464.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT