Association between dietary acid load and the risk of hypertension among adults from South China: result from nutrition and health survey (2015-2017)

• Main Authors: Shao-wei Chen (Author), Gui-yuan Ji (Author), Qi Jiang (Author), Ping Wang (Author), Rui Huang (Author), Wen-jun Ma (Author), Zi-hui Chen (Author), Jie-wen Peng (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Higher dietary acid load (DAL) was considered to be associated with an elevated risk of hypertension, while related data from mainland China remains scarce and incomplete. We aim to evaluate the association between DAL and the risk of hypertension among adults from South China. M...