In the first randomized study to test whether pre-made, low-sodium meals could improve outcomes, patients got usual diet (n=33) or home-delivered DASH/SRD meals (n=33).
Researchers took it one step further by creating sodium-restricted DASH meals, delivered pre-made to patients, containing 1,500 mg sodium per day and varying levels of potassium depending on renal function and use of mineralocorticoid antagonists. Sodium-restricted Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH/SRD) meals didn't significantly improve quality of life of for geriatric heart failure patients in a small randomized trial, but there were encouraging signals of improved symptoms, researchers said here.Ĭurrently recommended by hypertension guidelines, the DASH regimen has been associated with lower mortality in existing heart failure. In an analysis, the Kaiser Health News (9/23, Hancock) says lowering the price of medication is a desire shared across party lines, is a growing concern for an increasing number of Americans, and was even one of President Trump’s promises for early-term execution that “might have seemed the easiest to achieve,” yet, as the Times explains, “any momentum to curtail prescription drug costs.has been lost amid rancorous debates over replacing Obamacare and stalled amid roadblocks erected via lobbying and industry cash.” The Times cites as it says the drug lobby has spent $28 million “to air six ads depicting heroic researchers about 4,600 times on national TV” this year, the first half of which saw $145 million spent on lobbying by the pharmaceutical and health products industries, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, and $4.5 million given to congressional campaigns by drug makers, as found in a Kaiser Health News analysis.
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