Keep Weight Under Control Eating well is essential to maintaining healthy blood pressure, but even if you live on beans and bananas, extra pounds could harm you. In fact, one Italian study found that hypertension in overweight patients was a secondary condition, caused by the excess weight. In other words, once the weight was lost, the high blood pressure went with it. Stay Away From Salt Perhaps the best known advice for healthy blood pressure is maintaining a low sodium diet.
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Poor Sleep Linked to High Blood Pressure in Teens
Daniels, pediatrician-in-chief at the Children’s Hospital in Denver and a spokesman for the American Heart Association, noted that the new study is preliminary, but “it does point to the direction that the next studies need to go to understand what less sleep and less efficient sleep mean in terms of blood pressure.” If the findings hold up, they could eventually influence school system schedules, Daniels said. Schools now start later in the morning for younger students and earlier for teenagers, he said. “But the changes in the diurnal patterns for adolescents make it harder for them to get up in the morning and to get to sleep at night. If we reorganize the day-night schedule for adolescents, that could make life easier for them and their parents,” he added. Dr. Richard D. Simon Jr., medical director of the Kathryn Severyns Dement Sleep Disorders Center in Walla Walla, Wash., said the study findings make biological sense.
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Can Debt Raise Your Blood Pressure?
A two-point increase in diastolic blood pressure, for example, is associated with a 17 percent higher risk of hypertension and a 15 percent higher risk of stroke, the study says. Perceived stress, depression and general health were gauged by questioning participants, so those values are based on self-reported information. That means theyre a little fuzzy and prone to error. Blood pressure, though, was actually measured so the scariest part of this study is likely the most accurate, even if it only included young adults.
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Easier pills, no co-pays help blood pressure
It created a registry of adult members with high blood pressure, based on medical records. At the start, about 44 percent of 235,000 registry patients had their blood pressure under control. The registry grew, and by 2009, the portion under control reached 80 percent of 353,000 patients. That compares with 64 percent of people with blood-pressure problems nationwide.
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