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
If you have had normal
blood pressure before your pregnancy but had developed high
blood pressure after 20 weeks of pregnancy (systolic
pressure ≥ 140 mm Hg and
diastolic pressure ≥ 90 mm Hg)
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After 15 weeks of participation in recreational soccer, systolic and
diastolic blood pressure had fallen by 12 and 6 millimetres of mercury (mmHg) and the women had lost 2.3 kg of fat on average,» says project leader Magni Mohr.
After 10 days, the researchers saw a reduction in
diastolic blood pressure, triglycerides and LDL, or «bad» cholesterol.
After the end of the study, people with the new Danish diet observed their systolic and
diastolic blood pressure drop by 5.1 and 3.2 mmHg more than in the group with the average Danish diet.
The
diastolic blood pressure (the bottom number) represents the
pressure in the arteries as the muscle of the heart relaxes
after it contracts.
Net changes in systolic and
diastolic blood pressure before and
after the intervention is the primary outcome.
Specifically, outcomes were assessed
after 2, 6, and 12 months, with measurements for insulin, cholesterol, triglycerides, systolic,
diastolic,
blood pressure, and glucose levels all significantly better for Atkins patients than for patients in any other group.
What's more, another review of 43 studies found participants» systolic and
diastolic blood pressures decreased by an average of 3.55 and 1.32 mm Hg, respectively,
after they took nitrate supplements (23).