Association of Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension diet and Mediterranean diet with blood pressure in less-developed ethnic minority regions.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We aimed to investigate the association of Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH)-style diet and Mediterranean-style diet with blood pressure in less-developed ethnic minority regions (LMERs).

Design

Cross-sectional study.

Setting

Dietary intakes were assessed by a validated food frequency questionnaire. Dietary quality was assessed by the DASH-style diet score and the alternative Mediterranean-style diet (aMED) score. The association between dietary quality and blood pressure was evaluated using multivariate linear regression model. We further examined those associations in subgroups of blood pressure level.

Participants

A total of 81433 adults from the China Multi-Ethnic Cohort (CMEC) study were included in this study.

Results

In the

SUBMITTER: Dai S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9991676 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature