From the NIH/NLHBI website, below; however, the control group was on the “typical American diet,” not a low-carb diet. Do you have a link to a RCT study using low-carb as the control?
“This study included 412 adults who followed either a typical American diet or the DASH diet. The study provided all foods and beverages to participants for one month. Their daily sodium intake levels were either high, at 3,300 mg, which is similar to the current average U.S. daily sodium intake of about 3,600 mg; medium at 2,300 mg; or low at 1,500 mg.
The DASH-Sodium study made several findings:
Reducing daily sodium lowered blood pressure for participants on either diet. However, at all three daily sodium levels, the DASH diet lowered blood pressure more than the typical American diet at all three daily sodium levels.
Blood pressure decreased with each reduction of sodium.
Reducing sodium intake and following the DASH diet is more beneficial for lowering blood pressure than following the DASH diet alone or reducing sodium alone.
A follow-up report found that combining the DASH diet with sodium reduction benefited people who had higher than normal blood pressure readings. The report also found that people who started out with the highest blood pressure readings experienced the greatest benefits.”
You are looking at a different study. I don’t have a link. The study I’m talking about can be found in books. Don’t have time to dig them out right now.
For me, it is very simple: I know what diet approach results in my losing weight and feeling good: A combination of intermittent fasting and lower-carb, higher fat.