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SynthesisCurrent nutrition reports2025

Metabolite Profiles in Response to Dietary Interventions for Management of Blood Pressure: A Systematic Review.

María Gómez-Martín, Floor Rikken, Erin D Clarke, Jordan Stanford, Jessica J A Ferguson, Clare E Collins

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Synthesis in Current nutrition reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  4. Vine Tea (International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

María Gómez-MartínSchool of Health Sciences, College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, 2308, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7300-7471
Floor RikkenDivision of Human Nutrition and Health, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, 6702 PB, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0005-5687-6794
Erin D ClarkeSchool of Health Sciences, College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, 2308, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8250-5990
Jordan StanfordSchool of Health Sciences, College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, 2308, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3541-8960
Jessica J A FergusonSchool of Health Sciences, College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, 2308, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7962-1840
Clare E CollinsSchool of Health Sciences, College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, 2308, Australia. clare.collins@newcastle.edu.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3298-756X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundHypertension is a major global public health issue. The mechanisms through which diet influences blood pressure (BP) remain to be fully elucidated. Nutritional metabolomics offers an objective method for examining diet-health outcomes, including the contribution of intermediate molecules and metabolic byproducts or metabolites to BP regulation. To date, no review has investigated the relationship between diet, metabolites and BP regulation.

objectiveThis systematic review aim was to synthesise findings of human dietary intervention studies on BP, including feeding studies providing all foods and meals, as well as those that provided supplements.

methodsSix databases were systematically searched (Scopus, Medline, Embase, CINAHL, PsycINFO, and Cochrane) for intervention studies examining the relationship between dietary metabolites and BP regulation. The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Quality Criteria were used to assess the risk of bias.

resultsTwelve articles (11 unique studies) met the inclusion criteria, reporting 11 significant associations between metabolites and BP, while one study found no significant associations. More than 100 metabolites were associated with BP, 40 associated with SBP, 29 with DBP, 31 with both, and 2 did not differentiate between SBP or DBP. Only two metabolites, proline-betaine and N-acetylneuraminate, had significant relationships with BP measurement in more than one study.

conclusionsThis review identified a shortlist of potential metabolite indicators of response to dietary interventions for BP regulation. Findings highlight nutritional metabolomics as a potential contributor to understanding diet-induced changes in BP and CVD risk reduction. However, variability in reported metabolites and limited replication across studies may affect specificity and limit generalizability. Further research is needed to better understand this relationship.

Indexed as

Blood PressureDietHypertensionMetabolomeHumansMetabolomicsBlood pressureDietHypertensionMetabolitesSystematic review

Identifiers

PMID40540135
PMCPMC12181105

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