Dietary management in the prevention and treatment of hypertension: does it work?

During a meeting of the American Society of Hypertension in New Orleans, LA, in May 2008, an expert panel was convened to discuss nonpharmacologic therapy in hypertension. This is an update of a panel discussion that was held in March 2007. The panel was co-moderated by Marvin Moser, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, and Mark Houston, MD, Associate Clinical Professor at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN. Panelists included Laura Svetkey, MD, Professor of Medicine at Duke University, Durham, NC, and Brent Egan, Professor of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.