Modern perspective of the Rice Diet for hypertension and other metabolic diseases.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the early 1940s, before antihypertensive drugs were available, the Rice Diet Programme (RDP) was developed to treat severe hypertension and, later, diabetes and obesity. Despite significant advancements in dietary management for these conditions since then, debates remain regarding the proper guidelines for sodium and macronutrients intakes. The patient care records of RDP offer a unique source of longitudinal examination of a very low sodium (<10 mmol/day), fat, cholesterol and protein diet on blood pressure (BP), other health markers and survival.

Methods

In 2019, the Rice Diet Database Project (RDDP) digitised handwritten patient care records and retinal photographs of 17 487 RDP participants, establishing a digital database for analyses. Manual transcriptio

SUBMITTER: Sommerfeld R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11773661 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature