DASH-sodium trial: where are the data?
Open Access
- 1 January 2003
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in American Journal of Hypertension
- Vol. 16 (1) , 92-94
- https://doi.org/10.1016/S0895-7061(02)03200-4
Abstract
A recent New York Times editorial1 suggested that medical research may suffer the same loss of society's confidence that we have witnessed recently in other sectors of our society. Two medical issues reported in the preceding week precipitated the article. One was the discontinuation of the hormone replacement therapy (HRT) limb of the Women's Health Initiative,2 raising the possibility that one of the “absolutes” of women's health management was not scientifically verifiable. The second was an investigative commentary in its own Sunday Magazine3 that asked “what if fat did not make you fat?” That article generated heated debate in letters to the Times editor, a commentary in the Wall Street Journal, and lively exchanges on national TV and radio. As with the HRT episode, the article on dietary fat challenged one of the most widely held beliefs in U.S. preventive medicine policy.Keywords
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