Landmark 84/100
DASH — Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension
In plain English
Adults with mild hypertension were randomised to one of three diets, with all food provided. After eight weeks, the plant-rich DASH diet dropped systolic blood pressure by 11.4 mmHg in hypertensives — a drug-comparable effect achieved with no medication.
Why it matters
A plant-forward diet dropped systolic BP 11.4 mmHg in hypertensives — drug-comparable.
Informs: Stroke
Provenance
- Design
- Randomised controlled trial
- Sample size (n)
- 459
- Follow-up
- 1 years
- Peer-reviewed
- Yes
- Replications
- 5
- Funding
- Public / academic
- Funders
- US National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
- Institutions
- Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Duke, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Pennington Biomedical Research Center
decades.plus score
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Landmark 84/100
Caveats
Short duration; food was provided (real-world adherence is harder). Sodium was held constant in the original trial; the follow-up DASH-Sodium trial added that variable.
