PMID: 6535437Jan 1, 1984Paper

Projected population effects of a nutritional blood pressure intervention on death rates from cardiovascular disease

Annals of Clinical Research
T E KottkeA Nissinen

Abstract

Evidence is accumulating that blood pressure can be modified by dietary changes. To test whether dietary manipulation could have an important effect on CVD death rates in a population, we used the logistic risk function to project the effects of pharmacological and dietary intervention. Successful pharmacological control of 60%, 80%, and 100% of the population with diastolic blood pressure values of 90 mm Hg or more is projected to result in 11%, 14%, and 18% reductions in CVD death rates, respectively. Reducing dietary fat to 23% and increasing the P/S ratio to 0.98 is projected to result in a 47% reduction in CVD death rates. The dietary intervention is projected to reduce the population requiring medication by 50% and reduce costs of hypertension treatment by 30%. On the basis of these projections, we conclude that dietary interventions for hypertension control can have an important effect both on death rates and treatment costs.

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