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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jun 16.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Intern Med. 2020 May 19;172(12):786–794. doi: 10.7326/M20-0336

Table 3.

Weighted differences in cardiac biomarkers between diets

Absolute Difference %-Difference
High sensitivity cardiac troponin I (limit of blank: 0.5), ng/L
 Fruits & Vegetables versus Control −0.6 (−0.9, −0.3) −40.8 (−55.3, −21.7)
 DASH versus Control −0.5 (−0.9, −0.1) −31.4 (−46.9, −11.5)
 Fruits & Vegetables versus DASH −0.1 (−0.3, 0.1) −13.7 (−35.1, 14.7)
High sensitivity cardiac troponin I (limit of detection: 1.6), ng/L
 Fruits & Vegetables versus Control −0.5 (−0.9, −0.2) −35.4 (−51.5, −13.9)
 DASH versus Control −0.5 (−0.9, −0.1) −32.3 (−47.4, −12.9)
 Fruits & Vegetables versus DASH −0.0 (−0.2, 0.2) −4.6 (−27.8, 26.1)
N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide, pg/mL
 Fruits & Vegetables versus Control −0.3 (−0.5, −0.1) −21.8 (−34.7, −6.4)
 DASH versus Control −0.3 (−0.5, −0.0) −20.1 (−33.7, −3.7)
 Fruits & Vegetables versus DASH −0.0 (−0.2, 0.1) −2.2 (−20.2, 19.9)
High sensitivity C-reactive protein, mg/L
 Fruits & Vegetables versus Control −0.0 (−0.3, 0.2) −2.2 (−24.5, 26.6)
 DASH versus Control −0.0 (−0.2, 0.2) −0.2 (−21.2, 26.3)
 Fruits & Vegetables versus DASH −0.0 (−0.3, 0.2) −2.0 (−22.8, 24.3)

Conversions: 1 ng/L high sensitivity cardiac troponin I equals 0.001 mg/L; 1 pg/mL of N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide equals 1 ng/L and 0.1182 pmol/L; 1 mg/L high sensitivity C-reactive protein equals 9.5238 nmol/L