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What
if one simple text could lower your blood pressure by 2.2 points?
I
know it’s not much, but receiving a text is also not that complicated, right?
This
is exactly what researchers at the University of Cape Town and Oxford
University did, before publishing their amazing results in the journal Circulation.
The
study tested whether medication and clinic appointment reminders via text
message increased people’s compliance with their blood pressure treatment and lowered their blood pressure more than just what their prescribed
treatments were expected to.
They
recruited almost 1,300 participants from the poorer areas of Cape Town and
divided them into three groups.
1)
The first group received only their blood pressure treatment.
2)
The second group received their treatment together with text message reminders
to take their medication, attend their scheduled doctor’s appointments, do
their exercises,
and eat a healthy diet.
3)
And the third group received their treatments, the reminders, and the
interactive ability to cancel their doctor’s appointments and change the timing
of their messages.
Those
who received the text messages lost 2.2 mm Hg of systolic blood pressure points
more than those who received only their treatments, primarily because a higher
number of them took their medication 80 percent or more of the time, 61.2
versus 49.4 percent.
The
ability to interact and cancel appointments or messages made little difference.
One
of the authors stated that the improvement was approximately the same as what
would be expected from one-on-one behavioral counseling, which is considerably
more expensive.
Now,
I’m not the world’s number one fan of blood pressure medications but I’m fascinated by this study because it
can just as well be used to remind us to take natural measures.
One
of the problems with our blood pressure exercises, for example, is that people forget to do them.
They’re
so simple and easy and only take about 9 minutes or so. And they work for
almost everyone who remembers to actually do them.
But,
due to our busy schedules, we often forget even the simplest things.
So
how about instead of receiving text messages, you just put a reminder in your
phone that beeps at the same time every day just to remind you to take 9
minutes out of your day to lower your blood pressure?
Or
ask your son or daughter to send you a text daily to ask if you did your
exercises?
Lower Blood Pressure in Minutes - There
is High Blood Pressure, and Then There is An Even More Dangerous Form of Blood
Pressure
Everyone
knows that high blood pressure puts you at risk of heart failure, stroke, and other
potentially fatal conditions.
However,
researchers are beginning to realize that there is a related condition, which
may kill even more people.
This
is disturbing, because it would mean that preventing high blood pressure is not
quite enough.
An
article by British researchers in the March 2010 edition of the Lancet medical
journal concluded that people with systolic blood pressure, particularly those
that varied from one doctor’s visit to the next, were at a much higher risk of
stroke than those who simply had high blood pressure.
While
the study participants all suffered from high blood pressure, those whose
scores changed the most between low and high suffered the most strokes,
particularly if the highest point was extremely high.
Remember
that your systolic blood pressure is the higher of the two numbers on your
blood pressure reading. It measures the pressure of the blood pumped from your
heart into your arteries. If the normal blood pressure is 120 over 80, then
systolic would be the 120.
An
article published in the September 2015 edition of the Annals of Internal Medicine
had a more alarming than the findings of the Lancet study. An impressive 25,814 patients with high
blood pressure were subjected to repeated readings over a period of 22 months.
They were subsequently monitored for almost three years, to find out who
suffered the most strokes
and heart attacks.
Those
with the largest variations between readings had a 30% greater risk of
suffering a heart attack, a 46% greater risk of suffering a stroke, and a 25%
greater risk of suffering from heart failure.
And
if this is not bad enough, those that had systolic readings that were higher
than the 14-point variation were 58% more likely to die than those with smaller
variations. In other words, if your blood pressure, for example, sometimes
reads 130/90 and sometimes 150/100, you are 58% more likely to die in the next
three years when compared to someone with stable high readings.
One
thing that the researchers are not able to know yet is the direction of the
causal relationship. Does highly variable blood pressure cause the
cardiovascular conditions or are there other conditions already present that
are causing the highly variable blood pressure.
This
is important because, if the highly variable readings are caused by some third
health condition, researchers would need to discover this deadly condition very
soon.
If,
on the other hand, the unpredictable levels are the cause of the heart attacks
and strokes, researchers should develop a treatment that keeps blood pressure
consistent, as opposed to just lowering it.
However,
the bottom line is that high blood pressure needs to be managed. You need to
get it down, whether it’s spiking or not.
This
post is from the High Blood Pressure Exercise Program. It was made by
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