Low-Glycemic-Index Foods Can Decrease Systolic and Diastolic Blood Pressure in the Short Term

Table 4

The effects of LGI and HGI foods on SBP and DBP.

Characteristics	HGI diet			LGI diet
	Baseline	At the end of the intervention	value	Baseline	At the end of the intervention	value
SBP (mmHg)	111.80 ± 9.57	110.66 ± 9.85	0.60	112.86 ± 9.33	102.26 ± 14.18	0.001^*
DBP (mmHg)	74.26 ± 10.09	71.16 ± 9.16	0.06	74.46 ± 7.61	66.96 ± 10.39	0.002^*
HR (bpm)	79.60 ± 12.77	71.13 ± 13.23	0.01^*	81.03 ± 12.71	72.23 ± 10.62	0.02^*

; intragroup comparison of baseline and after intervention (after 24 hours). Results were performed by paired -test for normally distributed data and by Wilcoxon test for nonnormally distributed data.