OBJECTIVE To study the association between adherence to several a priori-defined healthy food patterns and the risk of hypertension. DESIGN Prospective, multipurpose, dynamic cohort study (recruitment permanently open). We followed up 10 800 men and women (all of them university graduates), who were initially free of hypertension, for a variable period (range 2-6 years, median 4.6 years). Dur...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Recent developments in technology-based dietary assessment allow real-time data collection of eating occasions, yet their application to assessing eating pattern constructs has not been evaluated. The purpose of this review was to examine existing electronic and mobile food diary methods in relation to their ability to assess eating patterns constructs (e.g. patterning, format...

Recently released position papers by the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) and Italian (SIIA) provide therapeutic recommendations for use nutraceuticals in management high blood pressure (BP) hypertension, opening up new perspectives field. This not-randomized diet-controlled clinical study aimed to evaluate if daily dietary supplementation with black garlic pomegranate (namely SelectSIEVE...

BACKGROUND Dietary factors are known to influence colorectal cancer (CRC) risk, however, their association with CRC survival is unclear. Therefore, we prospectively examined the association between diet quality scores, dietary patterns and colorectal cancer (CRC) survival. METHODS 1201 women diagnosed with stage I-III CRC between 1986 and 2008, were followed through 2010. Diet was assessed vi...

The Dietary Approach to Stop Hypertension (DASH) constitutes a nonpharmacological dietary strategy tailored with the primary objective of mitigating hypertension and averting its potential complications. Numerous clinical studies, such as PREMIER trial, DASH sodium study, OmniHeart well other substantiate diet's ability manage hypertension. Beyond profound impact on reduction, diet has exhibite...

Objective To prospectively examine the relation between the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) and Western diets and risk of gout (ie, the clinical endpoint of hyperuricemia) in men.Design Prospective cohort study.Setting The Health Professionals Follow-up Study.Participants 44 444 men with no history of gout at baseline. Using validated food frequency questionnaires, each participa...

BACKGROUND The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet is widely promoted in the USA for the prevention and treatment of high blood pressure. It is high in fruit and vegetables, low-fat dairy and wholegrain foods and low in saturated fat and refined sugar. To our knowledge, the use of this dietary pattern has not been assessed in a free-living UK population. METHODS The DASH diet ...