The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Diet Pattern and Incident Heart Failure.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet pattern has shown some promise for preventing heart failure (HF), but studies have been conflicting.

Objective

To determine whether the DASH diet pattern was associated with incident HF in a large biracial and geographically diverse population.

Methods and results

Among participants in the REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) cohort study of adults aged ≥45 years who were free of suspected HF at baseline in 2003-2007, the DASH diet score was derived from the baseline food frequency questionnaire. The main outcome was incident HF defined as the first adjudicated HF hospitalization or HF death through December 31, 2016. We estimated hazard ratios for the associations of DASH

SUBMITTER: Goyal P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8396128 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature