WestminsterResearch http://www.westminster.ac.uk/research/westminsterresearch Relationship of dietary monounsaturated fatty acids to blood pressure: the international study of macro/micronutrients and blood pressure Katsuyuki Miura 1 , Jeremiah Stamler 2 , Ian J Brown 3 , Hirotsugu Ueshim 1 , Hideaki Nakagawa 4 , Masaku Sakura 4 , Queenie Chan 3 , Lawrence J Appel 5 , Akira Okayama 6 , Nagako Okuda 7 , J David Curb 8,9 , Beatriz L Rodriguez8, Claire Robertson10, Liancheng Zhao11, Paul Elliott 3,12 , for the INTERMAP Research Group 1 Department of Health Science, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Japan 2 Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA 3 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, St Mary’s Campus, Imperial College London, UK 4 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Kanazawa Medical University, Ishikawa, Japan 5 Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA 6 First Institute of Health Service, Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association, Tokyo, Japan 7 Department of Nutritional Education, National Institute of Health and Nutrition, Tokyo, Japan 8 John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA 9 Deceased on January 8th, 2012 10 School of Life Sciences, University of Westminster, London, UK 11 State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People’s Republic of China 12 MRC-HPA Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, UK This is an author's accepted manuscript of an article published in the Journal of Hypertension, 31 (6). pp. 1144-1150, June 2013. The final definitive version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/HJH.0b013e3283604016