The Use of the Rice Diet in the Treatment of Hypertension in Nonhospitalized Patients

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THIS report covers the first six months of a study of a group of ambulatory or nonhospitalized patients with hypertension who were treated with the rice diet. With the work of Kempner1 2 3 4 as a guide but unlike his series in which all but a few patients were initially confined to a hospital, our patients were not hospitalized. So far as possible, nothing was changed in the daily routine of the patient except the diet. If he was ambulatory and working, this activity was continued. Patients who, when first started on the regime, were inactive because of their illness, continued on . . .

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