According to new information provided by Dr. Gary Gibbons, director of NIH’s #NationalHeart,LungandBloodInstitute, #bloodpressure can and should go as low as possible. - http://clapway.com/2015/09/12/blood-pressure-should-go-even-lower-099/

According to new information provided by Dr. Gary Gibbons, director of NIH’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, blood pressure can and should go as low as possible. He has also called this potentially lifesaving information. A study has been going on called the Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial, and it has shown that lowering blood pressure as much much as possible in people ages 50+ will lower the risk for stroke significantly. This was of such importance to Gibbons, that he announced the results of the study earlier rather than wait til the trial was finished.

HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE IN OLDER PATIENTS

Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is almost a guarantee when you are dealing with a patient that is 50+. There are actually 1 out of 3 adults living with high blood pressure in the Unites States. The people living with hypertension are living with their blood pressure currently have numbers 140/90 and higher. The normal bp for someone is 120/80 or lower. The treatment for hypertension patients in the past has been to get the systolic, or top number of the bp, down to at least 140 for healthy adults. The recommendation for people that are suffering from diabetes or kidney disease is to get the bp down even lower to at least a nominal rate of 130.

THE SPRINT STUDY

The Sprint Study, also known publicly as the Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial, has been running since 2009. This study has included 9,300+ participants ages 50 and older to the present date, with a mean age of 68. It was an extremely diverse study, including the elderly, and both male and female participants of the population. The study’s control was a systematic division in demographics, which separated people into different groups based on different goals of lowered blood pressure. The participants were significantly surprised to find out how the vast and incredulous difference they saw in the patients in the group with the lower blood pressure goal, and found that it not only helped with the heart and kidney diseases, but it saw better health results all around. Such experiments will hopefully further our pursuit of more successful methods for reducing blood pressure.

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Blood Pressure Should Go Even Lower

#Acupuncture is an ancient Chinese medical treatment. According to the University of Minnesota, needles are inserted into the skin of those undergoing the procedure to influence the #Qi, or energy flow, of their body. It also supposedly influences #bloodpressure. - http://clapway.com/2015/09/04/acupuncture-blood-pressure234/

Acupuncture may reduce blood pressure, a new study has found. Though researchers have refrained from drawing any conclusions due to the study’s small scale, they indicated that it demonstrated promise for people with moderately or mildly elevated blood pressure, HealthDay News reports.

“Potentially, blood pressure can be kept low with a monthly follow-up treatment,” said Dr. John Longhurst, a University of California, Irvine cardiologist who co-authored the study. It was published in the Medical Acupuncture journal.

HOW THE STUDY WAS DONE

To carry out the study, researchers used “electroacupuncture” – in which the acupuncture needles mildly electrically stimulate the patients. The small number of participants for the research received the weekly half-hour electroacupuncture treatment sessions.

“A noticeable drop in blood pressure was observed in 70 percent of the patients treated at the effective points, an average of 6 to 8 mm Hg for systolic blood pressure [the top number] and 4 mm Hg for diastolic blood pressure [the lower number],” Dr. Longhurst said in a statement to the press.

A small number of the participants were even deemed “high responders”, because their blood pressure decreased even more than it did for the rest of the group.

CRITICISM OF THE STUDY

Dr. Randall Zusman, a cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital Heart Center, criticized the report of the study. Its flaws, according to Zusman, are that the blood pressure variation in the people studied was too high and that the report does not mention the last time they took medication.

Nonetheless, Zusman was pleased with the results, having researched acupuncture’s medical use himself: “The outcomes are interesting and exciting and I’m encouraged that it might have been effective.”

Longhurst stated that more research was necessary, but none is currently planned due to a lack of funding.

ABOUT ACUPUNCTURE

Acupuncture is an ancient Chinese medical treatment. According to the University of Minnesota, needles are inserted into the skin of those undergoing the procedure to influence the Qi, or energy flow, of their body.

HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE AND ACUPUNCTURE

High blood pressure affects one in three American adults, and it is treated with different methods. Fitness naturally lowers blood pressure and is often encouraged by doctors, though the medication that they prescribe often has complicated side effects. For this reason, an alternative treatment is increasingly appealing to doctors.

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Why you shouldn"t brush off #erectiledysfunction. - http://clapway.com/2015/07/21/men-with-erectile-dysfunction-might-have-diabetes111/

According to the results of a new study, erectile dysfunction can be a predictor of undiagnosed diabetes. Previous studies showed that erectile dysfunction might be an early sign of cardiovascular disease. However, researchers confirmed that there can be a connection between erectile dysfunction and undiagnosed hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, as well as diabetes.

Erectile Dysfunction Hides Serious Problems

Many people feel uncomfortable when talking to their doctor about their sex life. However, men should take the problems they have in the bedroom very serious since those can be signs for another health problem.

The Connection between Impotence and Blood Sugar

The results were the product of gathering information from over 4,500 men from the United States, all above 20 years of age between the years 2001 and 2004. The reason for this study was to find a connection between impotence and blood pressure, cholesterol, as well as blood sugar. The researchers did not find anything to link having trouble achieving or keeping an erection to undiagnosed high blood pressure or high cholesterol.

However, in accordance with the results, 11.5% of the men who had undiagnosed diabetes had confirmed the existence of erectile dysfunction problems. In addition to that, the rate lifted even higher for men between the ages of 40 to 59 years old, since 19% showed unnaturally high blood sugar.

1 in 3 People Might Be Diagnosed with Diabetes

All men–but especially those who are middle-aged–have to be aware that there is a possibility to have diabetes type 2 even without having been diagnosed. This is why researchers suggest that doctors should get–not only screenings–but also the sexual histories of middle-aged men.

Unfortunately, diabetes is a serious disease, and it seems that the rate of patients with confirmed cases of diabetes is growing extremely rapid. The fact that the number of patients with this problem has doubled since 2000 is raising concerns among doctors. They believe that at this rate, 1 in 3 people might be diagnosed with diabetes by 2020.

This is the why men who encounter erectile dysfunction must get tested as soon as possible. This is the only way to catch the disease early.

The report was recently published in The Annals of Family Medicine.

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