Dietary factors and hypertension risk in West Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Contrary to North America and Europe, the prevalence of hypertension is rising in West Africa. Although diet is implicated as a contributor to this trend, nutritional guidelines in West Africa are not tailored to address this concern. This study aimed to address this limitation by investigating dietary factors common to West Africa and evaluating their association with hypertension.

Methods

PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and Medline were searched to identify studies that investigated diet and hypertension in West African adults. All meta-analyses used a generic inverse-variance random effects model, with subgroup analyses by age, BMI, and study location, and were performed in R.

Results

Three thousand, two hundred ninety-eight studies were identified, of w

SUBMITTER: Batubo NP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10399948 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature