A French study reported in the 12th January issue of Archives of Internal Medicine has found a strong correlation between blood pressure and outdoor temperature in a large sample of the elderly.(1) As a result, the investigators advise that, during periods of extreme temperatures, careful monitoring of blood pressure and antihypertensive treatment “could contribute to [...]
Dr. Masoud Shamaeizadeh, founder of Soft Touch Chiropractic, has long maintained that techniques exist to naturally reduce dependence on many prescription drugs, including blood pressure medications. A recent study published in the Journal of Human Hypertension has proved him right. The study revealed that chiropractic adjustments to correct misalignment of the atlas vertebrae can actually [...]
The air people breathe while walking in the park, working in the garden or shopping downtown may be unhealthy enough to seriously spike their blood pressure, a new study suggests. Cardiovascular researchers at The Ohio State University Medical Center are the first to report a direct link between air pollution and its impact on high [...]
The American Heart Association now recommends 24-hour blood pressure monitoring for certain children and adolescents suspected of having high blood pressure or a condition that causes unreliable readings at the doctor’s office. The statement, published in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association, is expert-opinion driven and not evidence-based. That’s because studies relating 24-hour monitoring [...]
Working up a sweat could be the most important lifestyle change people with high blood pressure — or hypertension — can make in their daily lives. Yet, although patients who receive exercise counseling seem to listen, few physicians actually take the time to talk about physical activity with their patients, a large nationwide study finds. [...]
High blood pressure is a time bomb that can trigger a deadly heart attack or stroke without warning. And because the condition often has no symptoms, getting checked is the only way to know whether you have it and if it is under control. To make checking your blood pressure easier and more accessible, the [...]
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have modified honeybee venom so that it can be used as a tool to study the inner workings of ion channels that control heart rate and the recycling of salt in kidneys. In general, ion channels selectively allow the passage of small ions such as sodium, [...]
An audio relaxation program lowered blood pressure more than a Mozart sonata in a group of elderly people with high blood pressure, researchers reported at the American Heart Association’s 62nd Annual Fall Conference of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research. In a study of 41 elderly participants at three retirement facilities: • Twenty participants [...]
Take a kidney out of the body and it still knows how to filter toxins from the blood. But all bets are off in the face of high blood pressure. “How does the kidney know how to do it and why does it break in hypertension?” says Dr. Edward W. Inscho, physiologist in the Medical [...]
Large amounts of salt consumption can cause resistant hypertension, and it becomes almost impossible to lower blood pressure even if the patient takes necessary drugs. A team of researchers from University of Alabama followed 13 patients with resistant hypertension, who were taking even high or low salt diet. The patients were checked to see how [...]
