HypertensionRandomised controlled trial
Remote dietitian counseling with short-term meal delivery improves DASH diet adherence and lowers blood pressure in veterans with hypertension and obesity
- randomized trial
Authors' conclusion
In Veterans with hypertension and obesity, a brief interval of home-delivered meals followed by telephone dietitian counseling sustainably improved DASH-SRD adherence and reduced BP.
Study context
- Population
- Veterans with hypertension and obesityveterans who completed the trial
- Participants
- Sixty-one veterans
- Comparison
- mobile application plus counseling vs counseling-alone
Primary result
As reported in the abstract
DASH adherence score (0-9, 3-day food diary) · Between baseline and 6 months
Baseline to 6 months
1.8 ± 1.6-2.3 ± 1.4 points
P
P = .02
Further findings
Systolic blood pressure (BP) · Between baseline and 6 months
- Baseline to 6 months
- 133 ± 17-128 ± 15 mmHg
- P
- P = 0.048
Diastolic BP · Between baseline and 6 months
- Baseline to 6 months
- 73 ± 11-69 ± 12 mmHg
- P
- P = 0.03
Urinary sodium:potassium ratio · Between baseline and 6 months
- Baseline to 6 months
- 2.6 ± 1.1-1.5 ± 0.8
- P
- P < 0.001
Between-group differences
- No significant differences between the mobile application plus counseling and counseling-alone groups
Dietary counseling session attendance
- Attendance
- 96%
Original publication
Remote dietitian counseling with short-term meal delivery improves DASH diet adherence and lowers blood pressure in veterans with hypertension and obesity. Am Heart J. Published 24 February 2026. doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2026.107386
Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it