Associations Between Dietary Patterns and Subclinical Cardiac Injury: An Observational Analysis From the DASH Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The DASH diet has been found to lower blood pressure (BP) and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels.

Objective

To compare diets rich in fruits and vegetables with a typical American diet in their effects on cardiovascular injury in middle-aged adults without known preexisting cardiovascular disease (CVD).

Design

Observational study based on a 3-group, parallel-design, randomized trial conducted in the United States from 1994 to 1996. (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT00000544).

Setting

3 of the 4 original clinical trial centers.

Participants

326 of the original 459 trial participants with available stored specimens.

Intervention

Participants were randomly assigned to 8 weeks of monitored feeding with a control diet typical of what many Ameri

SUBMITTER: Juraschek SP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7388686 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature