Relationship Between Diet Quality and Antihypertensive Medication Intensity Among Adults With Metabolic Syndrome-Associated High Blood Pressure
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Abstract
Background: Management of high blood pressure (BP), a key feature of the metabolic syndrome (MetS), relies on diet and medication. Whether these modalities are used as complements has never been evaluated in real-world settings. This study assessed the relationship between diet quality and antihypertensive medication intensity among adults with MetS-associated high BP. Methods: ypertension (DASH) score. Results: No evidence of a relationship between antihypertensive medication intensity and diet quality was found (β for each additional antihypertensive = -0.05; 95% CI, -0.35; 0.26 DASH score points). However, among men aged < 50 years and women aged < 60 years, the DASH score was inversely associated with medication intensity (β = -0.72; 95% CI, -1.24, -0.19), whereas this relationship tended to be positive among older participants (β = 0.32; 95% CI, -0.05, 0.69). Among participants with low Framingham risk score, the DASH score was inversely associated with medication intensity (β = -0.70; 95% CI, -1.31, -0.09), but no evidence of an association was found among individuals at moderate (β = 0.00; 95% CI, -0.45, 0.45) or high (β = 0.30, 95% CI, -0.24, 0.84) risk. Conclusions: In this cohort of adults with MetS-associated high BP, there was an overall lack of complementarity between diet quality and BP-lowering medication, especially among younger individuals and those with a lower risk for cardiovascular disease for whom diet quality was inversely associated with intensity of medication.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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