• Hong Ji Song, Yu Jin Paek, Min Kyu Choi, and Hae-Jeung Lee.
• Department of Family Medicine, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, College of Medicine, Hallym University, Anyang-si, South Korea.
• Prev Med. 2014 Oct 1; 67: 154-9.

ObjectiveTo investigate the relationship between hypertension and fruit intake in an Asian population.MethodThis study was based on the data from 2007, 2008 and 2009 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. In the final analysis, a total of 9791 subjects (men=3819, women=5972) were included. Daily energy and nutrient intakes were assessed using 24-h recall. The odds ratios (ORs) for hypertension were assessed by using logistic regression and multivariable models.ResultsA total of 10.6% of individuals were classified as having hypertension. Compared with the lowest quintile of fruit intake, the fifth quintile showed the lowest likelihood of hypertension (OR 0.73; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.61-0.88) after adjusting for age and gender. For women, the likelihood of hypertension in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th quintiles of fruit intake decreased to 0.67 (95% CI, 0.34-1.30), 0.76 (0.56-1.05), 0.90 (0.67-1.22) and 0.54 (0.38-0.77), respectively, after adjusting for confounding factors (P value for trend=0.0011). An inverse association of fruit intake and hypertension was shown only in non-obese women. For men and obese women, there was no relationship between fruit intake and hypertension.ConclusionDietary fruit recommendation for hypertension should be taken into account together with ethnic background, gender as well as the presence of obesity in individuals.Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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