ReviewAmerican journal of lifestyle medicine
Plant-Based Diets and Hypertension.
Review in American journal of lifestyle medicine. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 63 citations in OpenAlex.
- Plant-Based Diets Reduce Blood Pressure: A Systematic Review of Recent Evidence.Current hypertension reports · 2023Pooled it
- Trial
- Cardiometabolic Effects of Omnivorous vs Vegan Diets in Identical Twins: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2023Trial
- Associations between the Planetary Health Diet in Late Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes in Women with a Raised BMI: Insights from the PEARS Study.Current developments in nutrition · 2026Article
- Nutrition security, diet quality, and food assistance program use among food insecure households with children: A cross-sectional analysis.Nutrition and health · 2026Article
- Impact of a Web-Based Lifestyle Medicine Intervention: A Qualitative Study Among Rural Participants.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2025Article
- Effectiveness of a Remotely Delivered Whole Food Plant-Based Diet Intervention With Online Community Support: Pilot Study.American journal of lifestyle medicine · 2025Article
- High-Diversity Plant-Based Diet and Gut Microbiome, Plasma Metabolome, and Symptoms in Adults with CKD.Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN · 2025Article
- Association between dietary index for gut microbiota and hypertension: a large cross-sectional study from NHANES.BMJ nutrition, prevention & health · 2025Article
- Adherence to dietary approaches to stop hypertension (DASH), Mediterranean diet, and plant-based dietary pattern with systolic and diastolic blood pressure: A cross-sectional analysis.Caspian journal of internal medicine · 2025Article
- Association of plant-based food intake in daily diets and hypertension in older adults: a cohort study.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- A Scoping Review of the Causal Pathways and Biological Mechanisms Linking Nutrition Exposures and Health Outcomes.Current nutrition reports · 2024Article
- High Protein Diets and Glomerular Hyperfiltration in Athletes and Bodybuilders: Is Chronic Kidney Disease the Real Finish Line?Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2024Review
- Association between joint physical activity and healthy dietary patterns and hypertension in US adults: cross-sectional NHANES study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- "Zoom"ing to the Kitchen: A Novel Approach to Virtual Nutrition Education for Medical Trainees.Nutrients · 2023Article
- Plant-Based Nutrition: Exploring Health Benefits for Atherosclerosis, Chronic Diseases, and Metabolic Syndrome-A Comprehensive Review.Nutrients · 2023Review
- Nutrition policy critical to optimize response to climate, public health crises.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Article
- Lifestyle Interventions for Elevated Blood Pressure in Childhood-Approaches and Outcomes.Current hypertension reports · 2022Review
- Plant-Based Diet: Is It as Good as an Animal-Based Diet When It Comes to Protein?Current nutrition reports · 2022Review
- Nutrient Intake and Dietary Acid Load of Special Diets in the NHANES: A Descriptive Analysis (2009-2018).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Hypertension is a global epidemic and a risk factor for many adverse outcomes, including cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, and death. Lifestyle plays a significant role in the development and maintenance of hypertension, and guidelines from several organizations recommend lifestyle modifications as first-line intervention for hypertensive patients. Data supporting the use of plant-based diets in the treatment of hypertension goes back almost a century. More recently, clinical trial data, including randomized controlled trials, have established plant-based diets as an effective lifestyle intervention for high blood pressure (BP). Plant-based diets differ from the standard American diet in a myriad of ways, with some substances being present in either substantially higher or lower amounts. Although the precise mechanism of a plant-based diet's beneficial effects on BP is unknown, many of these differences may be responsible. Attributes of a plant-based diet that may lower BP include a lower energy content leading to weight loss, a lower sodium content, an increased potassium content, reduced oxidative stress, higher bioavailability of the vasodilator nitric oxide, and beneficial effects on the microbiome. The evidenced-based benefits of plant-based diets in treating hypertension should lead providers to advocate for this dietary pattern for their patients.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.