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Effect of a Ketogenic Diet, Time-Restricted Eating or Alternate-Day Fasting on changes in ambulatory blood pressure.
Ana María Gómez-Pérez1,2, Borja Bandera-Merchán1,2,3, José Ignacio Martínez-Montoro1,2
1Department of Endocrinology and Nutrition, Virgen de la Victoria University Hospital, The Biomedical Research Institute of Malaga and Platform in Nanomedicine (IBIMA-BIONAND Platform), University of Malaga, 29016 Malaga, Spain.
Background And Aims:
Obesity is a major risk factor for hypertension. The evidence on the effects of dietetic interventions to weight loss in blood pressure is scarce. Our main objective was to assess changes in blood pressure through 24-hours ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) in different hypocaloric diets differing in their theoretical ketogenic potential.
Methods:
In this single-centre, parallel-group randomized controlled trial (NCT04453150), participants with obesity (body mass index of more than 30kg/m2) were randomly assigned to one of five dietetic interventions: early time-restricted eating (eTRE), evening time-restricted eating (lTRE), modified alternate-day fasting (mADF), ketogenic diet (KD), and a control group following a standard Mediterranean diet (CG). In this subanalysis, a total of 96 participants were included and underwent 24-h ABPM before and after the intervention.
Results:
All groups showed statistically significant changes in anthropometric parameters. Regarding ABPM, mADF showed greater changes with improvements in most of the ABPM parameters after the intervention. Also, lTRE showed some improvements after the intervention while the rest of the groups did not show any statistically significant change. In the linear mixed model, the mADF diet appeared to have an influence on the improvement in 24-hour systolic blood pressure.
Conclusions:
Diets with different ketogenic potential aimed to weight loss have different effectiveness in reducing blood pressure. mADF was the best approach regardless of changes in body composition or ketone production.
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