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Finding Consensus in the Dietary Calcium-Blood Pressure Debate

Division of Nephrology, Hypertension, and Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon

View larger version (23K): [in a new window]   Fig. 1. Mean systolic and diastolic blood pressures at baseline and during each intervention week of the DASH Study, according to diet, for 379 subjects with complete sets of weekly blood pressure measurements [1].

View larger version (16K): [in a new window]   Fig. 2. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey I data portraying the relationship between dietary calcium and systolic blood pressure [6], in relation to values (boxes) at baseline and end of the DASH combination diet intervention for dietary calcium intake and systolic blood pressure [1].

View larger version (15K): [in a new window]   Fig. 3. Net effect of calcium supplementation at 1.5 g/day on systolic (SBP) and diastolic (DBP) blood pressure over eight weeks of intervention by tertile of dietary calcium intake [4].