Sentences with phrase «studies on blood pressure»

All the positive studies on blood pressure, antioxidants, and inflammation were conducted using steviosides.

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That's because, as a new study notes, meeting patients» basic social needs — including for heating, electricity, food access, and medicines — can actually have a significant effect on basic health indicators like blood pressure and cholesterol levels.

It may have to do with Addyi's high pricing (on par with Viagra at $ 26 per pill without an assistance program), its daily intake requirement (unlike Viagra, it adds up to $ 780 per month), its potentially deleterious side effects (low blood pressure and fainting), its restrictions on alcohol consumption (abstinence vs. large quantities not recommended for Viagra patients), a 10 % efficacy rate (whereas Viagra works 50 % of the time compared to a placebo, according to a recent study), and its subtle neurotransmitter - targeting mechanism (contrast that to the obvious hydraulics of Viagra).

Finally, we have reviewed a large - scale study on high blood pressure showing an association between high levels of protein intake (in the vicinity of 100 grams per day) and significantly decreased risk of high blood pressure over an 11 - year period of time.

Since consumption of whole grain products and dietary fiber has been shown to reduce the risk of high blood pressure and heart attack, Harvard researchers decided to look at the effects of cereal consumption on heart failure risk and followed 21,376 participants in the Physicians Health Study over a period of 19.6 years.

Lowers Blood Pressure: A 2013 study published in Drug Research examined the effects of yumberry (Myrica rubra) on the cardiovascular system of rats.

Chia is a complete protein, and it's being studied for its potentially positive effects on weight loss, heart health, diabetes and blood pressure.

Studies show that ALA may help protect the heart through its effect on blood pressure, cholesterol, and inflammation.

In one study, a protective effect of breast milk on blood pressure was observed when 26 percent of the original cohort were followed up at ages 13 — 16 years (15), but not when 81 percent were examined at ages 7.5 — 8 years (16), suggesting either the possibility of selection bias in the later follow - up or an amplification of the breastfeeding — blood pressure association (49).

We examined the likely impact on the overall pooled relation between breastfeeding and blood pressure of also including the five potentially eligible studies that did not provide quantitative estimates (table 1).

One way out of this dilemma, Daviglus notes, is to design a study in which patients suffering from hypertension get treatment, and doctors analyze the results based on how well the patients» blood pressure was controlled.

The aim of the present study was to assess the efficacy of aerobic exercise training (AET), resistance training (RT) and combined training (CT) on blood sugar control, blood pressure and blood fats in patients with type 2 diabetes in a systematic review and meta - analysis.

Earlier studies have demonstrated that cocoa flavanol intake improves the elasticity of blood vessels and lowers blood pressure — but, for the most part, these investigations have focused on high - risk individuals like smokers and people that have already been diagnosed with conditions like hypertension and coronary heart disease.

In a vacuum the gases and liquids in the body expand rapidly, animal studies show, but your skin and blood vessels maintain enough pressure on your body and its fluids that you will not instantly explode — no matter what you've seen in Hollywood films.

Principal investigator Charles H. Tegeler, M.D., professor of neurology at Wake Forest Baptist, and his team, performed five - minute recordings of heart rate and blood pressure in 131 study participants, during the enrollment visit, to assess the effect of the autonomic nervous system on the cardiovascular system.

«These diets have a very low calorie content of 600 to 800 kcal per day and can be effective for losing weight, reducing blood pressure, and reversing diabetes,» she added.2 «But the effects on the heart have not been studied until now.»

With the gain in knowledge from [this trial], it may be possible to make the recruitment of patients less restricted, to incorporate education about self - measurement as a standard procedure and focus on which scheme for titration to use, or to study the timing of the home blood pressure recordings.

«This study shows that researchers working on problems in rare diseases, such as blood pressure in synucleinopathies, can pool together data and ideas and develop a simple bedside test that can perhaps help spot these problems earlier,» says Dr. Kaufmann, the Felicia B. Axelrod Professor of Dysautonomia Research in the Department of Neurology, and professor of medicine and pediatrics at NYU School of Medicine.

DiNicolantonio recently co-wrote a review of studies, published in the journal, about the effects of salt and sugar on high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease.

OSU public health epidemiologist Michelle Odden, senior author on the study and the lead author on the earlier gait - speed research, explained how high blood pressure might actually help in some cases.

The fact that PETN had no effect on blood pressure in the parent rats, but reduced blood pressure in the female offspring, suggests that PETN is not directly responsible for the blood pressure lowering effect observed in the study.

Charles DeCarli, director of the Alzheimer's Disease Center and an author of the study, said it is a wake - up call that, just as people can influence their late - life brain health by limiting vascular brain injury through controlling their blood pressure, the same is true of getting a handle on their serum cholesterol levels.

In a study published in the Journal of School Nursing, researchers found that teens who spent at least 14 hours a week on the Internet had elevated blood pressure.

As lead author on a 2015 paper, Fox described the mathematical correlation between body mass index, blood pressure and ventricular mass during the initial phase of the study.

«Ideally, future studies may continue to expand our knowledge... with more detailed exploration of the potential modifying effect of comorbidity and frailty on the association between blood pressure and outcomes in older adults,» she wrote.

In the article «The effects of stair climbing on arterial stiffness, blood pressure, and leg strength in postmenopausal women with stage 2 hypertension,» results are provided from a study involving Korean postmenopausal women who trained four days a week, climbing 192 steps two to five times a day.

The study, published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, relied on self - reported stress from participants to determine the cause and clinical markers including blood pressure, body mass index, glucose levels and others to determine subsequent health effects.

Before this study, stair climbing had not been evaluated for its effects on blood pressure and arterial stiffness, which is a thickening and stiffening of the arterial wall.

The large study looked at the effects of antihypertensive treatment on the risk of dementia over a period of up to 24 years in 1262 older African Americans with high blood pressure who were cognitively normal at the onset of the study.

One limitation of the study is that researchers relied on self - reporting by study participants for information about high blood pressure or preeclampsia, a pregnancy disorder marked by high blood pressure and protein in the urine and a known risk factor for heart disease, that occurred in subsequent pregnancies after the one in which the initial data was collected.

The new study investigated the effect of antihypertensive medications on cognitive impairment and dementia, determining that it is blood pressure reduction rather than the medications that lower risk of dementia.

The study, based on 1999 - 2014 data taken from more than 41,000 people who participated in eight national health surveys, examined the prevalence and management of high blood pressure among adults.

A healthy diet may not offset the effects of a high salt intake on blood pressure, suggests a new study.

To use hd - PS, a researcher downloads the program from the Harvard site, connects it to one of the data software packages widely used in epidemiology, and imports to the system a wide range of health information on each study subject, ranging from basics like blood pressure and age to smaller, more esoteric factors like whether the individual saw a doctor in the past six months.

«Further, the study also showed that consuming larger amounts of potassium in the diet counterbalances the adverse affect of high sodium excretion on blood pressure in cardiovascular disease outcomes.»

Bhatt commented on the value of the study's cooperation between interventional and non-interventional blood pressure doctors, which demonstrated that a «good proportion» of patients with resistant hypertension in this study responded to expert medical therapy.

Studies have shown visceral obesity to be a risk factor on its own as well, a strong predictor of, among other things, heart attacks in young men, chronic heart failure in older people, high blood pressure in Japanese Americans, heart attacks in «well functioning» elderly women, and — the clincher, the coup de grease, if you will — of «all - cause mortality» in men.

«This program capitalizes on local resources that can bring about change in behavior and improve blood pressure rates,» said Monique Anderson, M.D., lead researcher of the study and a medical instructor in cardiology at the Duke Clinical Research Institute and the Duke School of Medicine in Durham, N.C. «As participants became more knowledgeable, they probably started exercising more, taking their medication more, and those who were really engaged showed dramatic responses in blood pressure change.»

It would also be interesting to repeat the study on younger participants and conduct sensitivity analyses as well as measurements of other health parameters, such as blood pressure.»

Dr. Fyffe, an expert in health disparities, is an author on two posters: «Qualitative study of the impact of blood pressure dysregulation on quality of life in SCI» and «Self - reported symptoms of blood pressure dysregulation in persons with spinal cord injury.»

Bethesda, Md. (March 20, 2018)-- Minoxidil, a popular drug used on the scalp to treat hair loss, might improve blood flow to the brain, lower blood pressure and increase elasticity in the blood vessels if taken in an oral form, according to a new study in mice.

In this study, the authors examined the effects of sex hormones on systematic and renal hemodynamic parameters, mean arterial pressure, renal cortical flow and renal medullary blood flow in castrated male and spayed female diabetic rats, compared with sham - operated animals.

High sodium diets are commonly used to study diet induced hypertension, since increasing levels of circulating sodium cause cells to release water (due to osmotic pressure) which elevates the pressure on blood vessel walls.

The gene was mapped to a small region on chromosome 18, which previous studies have suggested may play a role in blood pressure regulation in humans, mice and rats.

The deCODE study is the largest population genetic study ever carried out in patients with essential hypertension — high blood pressure without a known secondary cause — and reports the strongest genome - wide linkage of any research on this condition to date.

Get off the phone Blood pressure rose significantly in subjects talking on mobile phones in a recent study at Guglielmo da Saliceto Hospital.

Even further, studies on high - fat diets show that increased consumption of saturated fat has beneficial impacts on cardiovascular disease risk markers, including decreasing the level of triglycerides, fasting glucose, blood pressure, as well as increasing HDL cholesterol blood levels.

One study that lasted for over a decade, showed that zero intake and very high intake of coffee had a smaller effect on resting blood pressure levels in comparison to those who drank moderately up to 4 cups a day.

That study also found that weighted - blanket use was safe for healthy adults, having no effect on vital signs like pulse and blood pressure.

Another was that the study authors didn't have information on high blood pressure and high cholesterol — conditions that are linked to obesity.