HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS		QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced] Author: Keyword(s): Year:  Vol:  Page:

This Article Full Text Full Text (PDF) Purchase Article View Shopping Cart Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Request Permissions Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Azadbakht, L. Articles by Esmaillzadeh, A. Search for Related Content PubMed Articles by Azadbakht, L. Articles by Esmaillzadeh, A. Social Bookmarking                What's this?

Beneficial Effects of a Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension Eating Plan on Features of the Metabolic Syndrome

Response to Esposito and Giugliano

Endocrine Research Center, Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Address correspondence to Leila Azadbakht, Endocrine Research Center, Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, P.O. Box: 19395-4763, Tehran, I.R. Iran. E-mail: azadbakht@erc.ac.ir

The first 20% of the full text of this article appears below.

We thank Esposito and Giugliano (1) for their attention to our study, in which we showed the beneficial effects of a Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) eating pattern on components of the metabolic syndrome (2). DASH diet is similar to the Mediterranean diet; both have high levels of fiber and isoflavones and a large number of low–glycemic index foods such as vegetables and whole grains (3,4). We agree with Esposito and Giugliano that in the short term, our study (2) confirms the results reported by them previously (3). However, we discussed differences between DASH and Mediterranean diet in the CONCLUSIONS section of our study (2).

We reported a 13-kg weight reduction in the weight-reducing diet and a 15- . . . [Full Text of this Article]

CiteULike    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    What's this?

This article has been cited by other articles:

				L. Azadbakht and A. Esmaillzadeh Beneficial Effects of a Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension Eating Plan on Features of the Metabolic Syndrome: Response to Esposito and Giugliano Diabetes Care, April 1, 2006; 29(4): 954 - 955. [Full Text] [PDF]