Patients with high blood pressure who learned the Transcendental Meditation program showed a significant reduction of systolic and diastolic blood pressure after three months, in contrast to those randomly assigned to a control technique or to those who received health education on how to reduce blood pressure through diet and exercise.
Not exact matches
Among
patients with hypertension at
high risk of cardiovascular disease, a program that consisted of
patients measuring their
blood pressure and adjusting their antihypertensive medication accordingly resulted in lower systolic
blood pressure at 12 months compared to
patients who received usual care, according to a study in the August 27 issue of JAMA.
«We also urge clinicians to be more sympathetic towards their
patients who report drug side effects — after all,
high blood pressure is an asymptomatic condition and it is the drugs that can make
patients symptomatic
with adverse effects.
«Under normal circumstances, myofibroblasts stimulate wound healing, but when there's an ongoing injury to an organ (e.g., the liver of a hepatitis C
patient, the heart of a
patient with high blood pressure, or the kidney of a
patient with diabetes) these proteins clog up normal functioning,» said Humphreys, a Harvard Medical School associate professor at Brigham and Women's Hospital,
who leads the Harvard Stem Cell Institute Kidney Program.
Drugs.com says phenylephrine should not be used by
patients with high blood pressure or
who are taking antidepressants or in combination
with cold or allergy medicine.
For example, she has seen dramatic results for
patients with type 2 diabetes,
high cholesterol and
high blood pressure who go on a whole - food, plant - based diet.
According to a study published in Hypertension, 50
patients with resistant hypertension (defined as
high blood pressure that doesn't respond to taking three or more types of medication designed to lower
blood pressure)
who walked on a treadmill at a 3 percent grade three times a week for eight weeks were able to lower their systolic
blood pressure (the number on the top of a
blood -
pressure reading) by 6 mm Hg (a measure of
pressure).
In clinical trials, many
patients with asthma, type II diabetes (formerly known as adult - onset diabetes), or
high blood pressure who began a regular practice of yoga were able to either lower their drug dosage, or eliminate some pills entirely.
This is seen in data where the percentage of
patients with and without CAD
who have
high cholesterol,
high blood pressure, and other surrogate outcomes is not 100 % and 0 %, respectively (45, 46).
I've never seen any problems occur, even
with patients who have been taking
high blood -
pressure medications, sleeping pills, antidepressants, etc..