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Dietary Amino Acids and Blood Pressure: A Cohort Study of Patients With Cardiovascular Disease
American Journal of Kidney Diseases, 03/05/2012
Clinical Article
Tuttle KR et al. – Intakes of methionine and alanine were associated positively with higher blood pressure, whereas intakes of threonine and histidine had inverse associations.
Methods- Observational cohort study by secondary analysis of clinical trial data.
- Study of low-fat versus Mediterranean-style diets in patients with prevalent cardiovascular disease.
- Dietary amino acids.
- Systolic and diastolic blood pressure.
- Dietary nutrients and cardiovascular risk factors were assessed at baseline, 3 and 6 months, and then every 6 months for 2 years.
- Baseline blood pressure was 119 ± 16 (SD)/72 ± 10 (SD) mm Hg (n = 92) and dietary protein intake was 80 ± 31 g/d.
- Independent amino acid variables (quartiles of intake) were analyzed by generalized estimating equation models with prespecified covariates for time-varying systolic and diastolic blood pressure.
- The odds of each 1-SD higher systolic or diastolic blood pressure (ie, 16 and 10 mm Hg, respectively) were increased per quartile of intake for methionine (ORs of 1.29 [95% CI, 1.14-1.46] and 1.21 [95% CI, 1.05-1.39], respectively) and alanine (ORs of 1.17 [95% CI, 1.05-1.30] and 1.22 [95% CI, 1.07-1.38], respectively).
- Quartiles of intake for threonine (ORs of 0.84 [95% CI, 0.74-0.96] and 0.87 [95% CI, 0.75-1.01], respectively) and histidine (ORs of 0.92 [95% CI, 0.86-1.00] and 0.89 [95% CI, 0.82-0.97], respectively) had inverse associations with the same degree of difference in blood pressure.
