I have seen reports from Dr Bernard, Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr., MD, and Dr Ornish where they document how switching to a whole food plant based diet (WFBP) has reversed atherosclerosis in patients over time using angiograms and other medical techniques to document improvement. While this is great, I was wondering if they or any other medical author used pulse pressure changes as evidence of improvement over time.
For example, you have indicated that your resting blood pressure is 90/60 for a pulse pressure of 30, which I think we could call the gold standard. In my example, you decided that WFPB diet was no longer working for you and you now are on the bacon ice cream diet. Year 1, your pulse pressure increases to 40 and in year 2, this number increases to 55. By year 3, your pulse pressure is 75 and your GP is going to feed you multiple medicines to get your blood pressure under control.
You decide that the WFPB diet may be the better choice and after a few years, your blood pressure is 90/60 again. Has anybody documented the change in pulse pressure with the improved diet?