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The Effects of Dietary Patterns on Urinary Albumin Excretion: Results of the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Trial.

Author(s): Jacobs DR Jr, Gross MD, Steffen L, Steffes MW, Yu X, Svetkey LP, Appel LJ, Vollmer WM, Bray GA, Moore T, Conlin PR, Sacks F

Affiliation(s): Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; Department of Nutrition, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

Publication date & source: 2009-01-22, Am J Kidney Dis., [Epub ahead of print]

BACKGROUND: Dietary studies designed to decrease the urinary albumin excretion rate (AER) typically reduce protein by increasing lower protein plant foods and decreasing higher protein animal products. STUDY DESIGN: We evaluated AER while increasing protein intake in the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Trial (randomized, parallel group, 8 week controlled feeding). SETTING & PARTICIPANTS: 378 individuals without diabetes with prehypertension or stage I hypertension. INTERVENTION: The DASH diet, 18% energy from protein, emphasizes, among other features, low-fat dairy products; and the fruit/vegetable (FV) and control diets, each with 15% energy from protein. OUTCOME: AER. MEASUREMENTS: We measured AER by using immunoassay and covariates at baseline and after 8 weeks. RESULTS: Baseline AER had a geometric mean value of 4.0 +/- 0.2 (SE) mg/24 h. In 285 participants with baseline AER less than 7 mg/24 h, AER was unchanged by diet treatment (geometric mean, 2.5 +/- 0.2 mg/24 h in the control diet, 3.0 +/- 0.2 mg/24 h in the FV diet, and 2.8 +/- 0.2 mg/24 h in the DASH diet). Conversely, in 93 participants with baseline AER of 7 mg/24 h or greater, end-of-feeding AER was lower in the FV diet (6.6 +/- 1.0 mg/24 h) than in the control (11.4 +/- 1.8 mg/24 h; P = 0.01) or DASH diets (11.7 +/- 1.6 mg/24 h; P = 0.005). The DASH and control diets were not different (P = 0.9). LIMITATIONS: Long-term AER change not studied. CONCLUSIONS: The decrease in AER after 8 weeks occurred in only those with high-normal baseline AER in the FV diet, in a pattern distinct from the blood pressure decrease. The DASH diet did not increase AER despite a 3% increase in energy from protein.

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