A modified recommended food score is inversely associated with high blood pressure in Korean adults

Kyuyoung Han, Yoon Jung Yang, Hyesook Kim, Oran Kwon

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Abstract

Hypertension is associated with an increase in cardiovascular disease and mortality. The interplay between dietary intake—especially sodium intake—and high blood pressure highlights the importance of understanding the role of eating patterns on cardiometabolic risk factors. This study investigates the relationship between a modified version of the Recommended Food Score (RFS) and hypertension in 8389 adults aged 19–64 years from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2013–2015. A dish-based, semi-quantitative, 112-item food frequency questionnaire was used to assess dietary intakes. Modified RFS (mRFS) is based on the reported consumption of foods recommended in the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet modified for Korean foods. High blood pressure included hypertension and prehypertension, also known as stage 1 hypertension. Men and women with the highest quintile of mRFS had a 27.2% (OR: 0.728, 95% CI: 0.545–0.971, p-trend = 0.0289) and 32.9% (OR: 0.671, 95% CI: 0.519–0.867, p-trend = 0.0087) lower prevalence of high blood pressure than those with the lowest quintile of mRFS, respectively. Our finding suggests that a higher mRFS may be associated with a lower prevalence of high blood pressure among the Korean adult population.

Original languageEnglish
Article number3479
Pages (from-to)1-15
Number of pages15
JournalNutrients
Volume12
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2020

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Funding: This study was supported by the Bio and Medical Technology Development Program of the National Research Foundation (NRF), funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT (2012M3A9C4048761); and by RP-Grant 2019 of Ewha Womans University. The funders had no role in the study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, writing of the paper, or the decision to submit the paper for publication.

Funding Information:
This study was supported by the Bio and Medical Technology Development Program of the National Research Foundation (NRF), funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT (2012M3A9C4048761); and by RP-Grant 2019 of Ewha Womans University. The funders had no role in the study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, writing of the paper, or the decision to submit the paper for publication.

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© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

Keywords

  • Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet
  • High blood pressure
  • Hypertension
  • KNHANES
  • Modified Recommended Food Score (mRFS)
  • Recommended Food Score (RFS)

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