NCT01364337

Blood Pressure and Glucose Lowering Diet for Taiwanese

Design and Testing Efficacy of Blood Pressure and Glucose Lowering Diet for Taiwanese Pre-/1st Staged Hypertension Patients and/or Pre-diabetes Patients

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (estimated)
• Sponsor: National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Prevalence rates of hypertension and diabetes are high in Taiwan. Little attention is given to evidence-based dietary therapy in Taiwan. Patients, after confirmed diagnosis, are mostly prescribed with medications without comprehensive instructions on dietary therapy. DASH diet has been proven to be an effective dietary approach to reduce blood pressure for hypertension patients in US. However, dietary difference and patient profiles across countries are evident. In addition, hypertensive patients are often combined with hyperglycemia. Carbohydrate burden of DASH diet may be higher than most dietitians desire. Therefore, the investigators in tend to design a Taiwanese DASH diet and a lower carbohydrate DASH diet and test their efficacy on both blood pressure and fasting glucose lowering.

Conditions

• Hypertension

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	DASH diet	DASH diet: A diet rich in whole grain, fruit and vegetable, low-fat dairy products, white meat and nuts; and lower of total fat and saturated fat.
OTHER	lower carbohydrate DASH diet	lower carbohydrate DASH diet: A DASH diet with lower carbohydrate percentage

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-11-01
• Primary completion: 2011-12-01
• Completion: 2011-12-01
• First posted: 2011-06-02
• Last updated: 2011-06-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan