Association between plant-based diets and blood pressure in the INTERMAP study
Publication: BMJ Nutrition
Aljuraiban G, Chan Q, Gibson R, Stamler J, Daviglus M, Dyer A et al.
8 July 2020
Summary
Plant-based diets are associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular diseases; however, little is known how the healthiness of the diet may be associated with blood pressure (BP). Researchers aimed to modify three plant -based diet indices: overall plant-based diet index (PDI), healthy PDI (hPDI), and unhealthy PDI (uPDI) according to country-specific dietary guidelines to enable use across populations with diverse dietary patterns – and assessed their associations with BP.
