Treating malignant hypertension with a low-sodium, low-protein, low-fat diet

2025-04-03 cardiovascular medicine Title + abstract only

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BackgroundThe Rice Diet (RD), a low-sodium (<150mg/day), low-protein (20g/day), low-fat (<5g/day), diet was used to treat patients with malignant hypertension (MH) beginning in the 1940s, before any effective anti-hypertensive drugs were available. We retrospectively analyzed a curated cohort of RD patients with MH to assess factors, including dietary adherence, associated with blood pressure (BP) reduction. MethodsFrom 17,487 RD charts, we identified 544 MH patients (baseline systolic BP (SBP)...

Treating malignant hypertension with a low-sodium, low-protein, low-fat diet

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