Dietary strategies to combat arterial stiffness in cardiometabolic disease: a network meta-analysis.
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and hypertension (HTN) are leading causes of global morbidity and mortality. Arterial stiffness, assessed via augmentation index (AIx) and pulse wave velocity (PWV), serves as an independent prognostic marker of vascular damage; however, the comparative efficacy of dietary interventions on...