Abstract 16938: Relationship of Healthy Diet with Components of Blood Pressure: a Study from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos

Background: The Alternative Healthy Eating Index (AHEI-2010) is a measure of adherence to U.S. dietary guidelines and is inversely related to cardiovascular and diabetes risk. It is unknown if the AHEI-2010 is associated with distinct blood pressure (BP) components including measures of pulsatile versus steady state load (surrogates of large and small artery disease). Methods: We studied 12,445 participants from 4 U.S. sites in the Hispanic Community Health Study / Study of Latinos who provided at least one 24h dietary recall, were free of cardiovascular disease, and not on anti-hypertensive medications. We used weighted linear regression for complex survey sampling and non-parametric spline models to examine the cross-sectional relation of AHEI-2010 with components of BP (systolic BP [SBP], diastolic BP [DBP], pulse pressure [PP], mean arterial pressure [MAP]) while adjusting for established clinical correlates of BP. Results: The target population mean age was 38 years (0.22 s.e.) with 52% women, 21% sm...