Tag: Heart / Stroke-Related: High Blood Pressure

However, telephone coaching and BP self-monitoring intervention resulted in increased physical activity, reduced dietary sodium intake, and increased home blood pressure monitoring

Adults with hypertension had modest but significant reduction in drinks at 12 months and in BP at 18 months

Lower use of psychotropic, antihypertensive, and asthma medications observed; association attenuated by body mass index

Inverse relationship seen between habitual nighttime hot spring bathing and history of hypertension

Occurrence of major cardiovascular events, non-cancer-related deaths no lower with chlorthalidone versus hydrochlorothiazide

No association seen for people with optimal and normal BP, high-normal BP, grade 1 hypertension

BP reduction greater with 15 minutes a day of yoga, five times a week for three months plus 30 minutes of aerobic training, compared with stretching control

Rate of BP control significantly higher after 12 months of multicomponent intervention, with reduction in SBP of −10.1 mmHg

However, Black, Asian, Hispanic women all more likely than White women to experience severe hypertension requiring treatment

Risk for developing dn-PPHTN was increased for those aged 35 years or older, with caesarean delivery, for current or former smokers