Sentences with phrase «significantly lower high blood pressure»
Garlic has not been shown to significantly lower high blood pressure — and supplements are not intended to replace prescribed drugs.
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Losing just five per cent of body weight has been shown to significantly improve health, including lowering the risk of heart disease, high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes.
A diet rich in fruits, vegetables, low - fat dairy and reduced in fats and saturated fats (the DASH diet), designed decades ago to reduce high blood pressure, also appears to significantly lower uric acid, the causative agent of gout.
And while researchers again found that excessive salt intake was associated with an increase in systolic high blood pressure, they found that a low - sodium diet was significantly associated with higher mortality from cardiovascular causes:
According to one meta - analysis cited in the review, higher sugar intake significantly increased systolic blood pressure (6.9 mm Hg, or 7.6 mm Hg when industry - financed studies were excluded) and diastolic blood pressure (5.6 mm Hg, or 6.1 mm Hg when industry studies weren't considered) when compared to diets with lower sugar consumption.
A 4 - wk dietary intervention of hypertensive subjects showed that a high - protein diet (25 % energy) was effective in significantly lowering blood pressure (131).