Chinese Heart Healthy Diet for People With High Cardiovascular Risk in China (DECIDE-Diet)

The DECIDE - Diet (Diet, ExerCIse and carDiovascular hEalth - Chinese Heart Healthy Diet for People With High Cardiovascular Risk in China) is to evaluate the effects of CHH-diet in reducing blood pressure in Chinese people with high cardiovascular risk. The study will recruit 360 adults people from 4 centers in China. All eligible participants will participate in a 1-week run-in phase in which they are fed the usual Chinese diet. Participants who pass the run-in phase will be randomly assigned 1:1 to receive CHH-diet or usual diet with the use of a central concealed randomization procedure (simple randomization), stratified by center and batch. The intervention will last 28 days. Primary outcome will be the change in systolic blood pressure. The secondary outcomes include the differences between the two groups in the changes of diastolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, fasting blood glucose, 10-year CVD risk, gut microbial community and food preference score.