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Researchers who studied the dining habits of almost 89,000 women over a period of 24 years have concluded that those who routinely consumed a diet as close as possible to the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet were at significantly less risk for coronary heart disease and stroke than the women in the study who deviated the most from the DASH dietary guidelines. The Nurses’ Health Study followed 88,517 female nurses, whose ages ranged from 34 to 59 at the beginning of the study in 1980. None of them had diabetes or cardiovascular disease at the inception of the study. They reported their typical dietary fare seven times over the course of the 24-year study, with each report reflecting their dietary habits from each previous year.
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