Culturally Adapted Dietary Clinical Trial in PR: Puerto Rico Evaluation of a Culturally Informed Sustainable Intervention for Optimal Nutrition (PRECISION)
This project will determine whether a diet culturally adapted to adults in Puerto Rico can effectively decrease cardiometabolic risk factors. This will help define a culturally-appropriate, feasible, and sustainable diet intervention aimed at reducing cardiovascular, type 2 diabetes, and obesity outcomes.
• Age 30-65y old at the time of enrollment
• Non-institutionalized
• Living in PR at the time of recruitment and for at least the previous year and not planning to move from the island within the next 3 years
• Able to answer questions without assistance
• Having a cellphone with the capacity to receive text messages and be willing to receive daily text messages from the study on the designated cellphone number
• Having at least one of the following:
‣ elevated BMI
⁃ elevated waist circumference
⁃ self-reported physician-diagnosed hypertension or use of hypertension medication or measured high blood pressure at the baseline visit
⁃ self-reported physician-diagnosed pre-diabetes or measured pre-diabetes at the baseline visit
⁃ self-reported physician-diagnosed dyslipidemia or use of lipid-lowering agents or laboratory values confirming dyslipidemia