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Four years later, the DASH team, led by Associate Professor of Nutrition Frank Sacks of the School of Public Health, is back fighting high blood pressure...
...study published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, Sacks and his team show that combining the DASH diet with a reduction in salt intake can further reduce high blood pressure, especially in those with hypertension...
...team, which consisted of researchers at Harvard, Duke, Johns Hopkins and Louisiana State, tested 412 people, assigning half of them to the DASH diet and half of them to a normal diet. The subjects then ate foods with high, medium and low sodium for 30 consecutive days...
...results showed that combining the DASH diet with a low sodium intake reduced blood pressure by an average of 7.1 points in healthy patients, and by 11.5 points in patients with hypertension...
Reduced salt intake led to a decrease in blood pressure both in patients who were on the DASH diet and those who were on the control diet...