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Protein intake and blood pressure in cardiovascular disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2007

Paul Elliott
Paul Elliott*
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College, London, St Mary's Campus, Norfolk Place, London, W2 1PG, UK
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Corresponding author: Dr Paul Elliott, fax +44 20 7262 1034, p.elliott@ic.ac.uk
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Raised blood pressure (BP) is a major cause of CHD and the leading cause of stroke. Although BP rises with age in most populations, there are remote populations around the world where BP does not rise with age and where the high prevalence of high BP and frank hypertension seen in the UK and other Western countries in the older age-groups is not found. However, when such populations migrate to urban settings, their BPs rise, indicating that the population-wide BP problem is largely environmental in origin. Thus, a substantial body of evidence has accumulated on the importance of dietary factors in BP (Na and alcohol intakes (direct relationship) and K intake (inverse relationship)) as well as body weight (direct relationship). More recently, attention has shifted to other dietary factors that might affect BP. Data from studies of vegetarians (who tend to have lower BP than meat-eating populations) as well as clinical data on the adverse effects of protein intake in patients with renal insufficiency led to the view in Western countries that dietary (animal or total) protein had an adverse effect on BP. By contrast, studies in Japan and China suggested that dietary protein might be protective of high BP and stroke. Recent epidemiological studies have found inverse associations between dietary protein intake and BP, consistent with this view, and supported by some evidence from animal studies. Recent controlled clinical trials of soyabean supplementation have also suggested a BP-lowering effect of protein intake. Results of further large-scale epidemiological studies of protein and BP are awaited.

Keywords

Blood pressureProtein intakeCardiovascular disease riskWestern lifestyleEpidemiological data
Type
Macronutrient Group Symposium on ‘Protein intake and chronic disease’
Information
Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 62 , Issue 2 , May 2003 , pp. 495 - 504
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 2003

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