Table 4.
Adjusted Post-treatment Clinic and Ambulatory BP by quartile of post-treatment DASH diet adherence. Quartiles are ranked from most adherent (quartile 1) to least adherent (quartile 4).
As shown, improvements in DASH diet adherence were associated with greater reductions in clinic SBP.
| Variable | 1 (n=40) |
2 (n=33) |
3 (n=35) |
4 (n=36) |
P-value for Linear Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clinic SBP | 123.9 (2.1) | 126.1(1.9) | 130.8(1.8) | 130.8 (2.1) | .034 |
| Clinic DBP | 77.1 (1.0) | 78.2 (1.0) | 80.4 (1.0) | 78.5 (1.1) | .163 |
| Ambulatory SBP | 129.2 (1.9) | 132.7 (2.0) | 133.9 (2.0) | 134.5 (2.2) | .281 |
| Ambulatory DBP | 76.6 (1.1) | 79.0 (1.2) | 80.5 (1.2) | 80.9 (1.3) | .058 |
Post-treatment clinic and ambulatory BP values by quartiles of post-treatment DASH diet adherence across all groups. P-values are corrected for pretreatment BP values, age, gender, ethnicity, and weight loss.