Tip! Don’t use pulse rate as a direct measure of exercise intensity if blood pressure medications are being used, as these can decrease pulse rate significantly.

New Blood Pressure Treatment Guidelines are on the way.

Blood pressure treatment recommendations may be about to change as a result of a new large study called the ASCOT TRIAL.

The ‘Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcomes Trial’ (ASCOT) compared two drugs in combination (amlodipine plus perindopril) with another two similar but slightly more old fashioned drugs (atenolol plus bendroflumethiazide).

The study has been stopped nearly five years early because high blood pressure patients taking the former combination were found to be much less likely to experience an MI or stroke than those on the latter treatment.

Tip! Eating red grapefruits is one of the best high blood pressure remedies there is. Eat several a day, if possible.

The study looked at 19000 blood pressure patients and started in 1997. Researchers from Imperial College in London said that precise figures on the effectiveness of this new combination would not be available until full results of the study have been analysed. They aim to publish a paper in a medical journal called The Lancet later in 2005.

The ASCOT study also originally looked at drugs for cholesterol treatment. This lipid lowering arm of the study (ASCOT-LLA) was also stopped prematurely in October 2002 after it showed that blood pressure patients benefited from taking atorvastatin whether or not they had high cholesterol.

Only time will tell how important these results are but it looks as if this study will trigger major changes in how we look at the choice of blood pressure and cholesterol treatments.

Tip! Weight - people who are overweight are more at risk of high blood pressure than those who are of normal weight. Blood pressure tends to rise as body weight increases.

Dr Gordon Cameron is a doctor based in Edinburgh, Scotland. He has a special interest in blood pressure treatment.
You can discover how to lower high blood pressure and about the problems of low blood pressure treatment by visiting Dr Cameron’s websites.

He has also written about using acupuncture for high blood pressure.

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Most people, unless they have symptoms which demand immediate attention, limit their visits to the doctor to an annual or semi-annual checkup. As long as everything checks out OK, they don0t make many changes in their diet and exercise until it0s time for the next physical.
Because hypertension–high blood pressure, also known as the silent killer–usually does not announce its arrival, someone could go for six month to a year, until the next checkup, without having it diagnosed. But there are people, and you may be one of them, who should be keeping track of their high blood pressure on a regular basis.
If high blood pressure is common among your family members, you should be doing things to avoid developing it, but just as importantly, you should be keeping track of your blood pressure so that if it does seem to be elevated over a period of a month or so, you can get to the doctor before it0s time for your next physical. You should consider buying a home blood pressure machine.
How A Home Blood Pressure Machine Works
Home blood pressure machines are very similar to the ones the physician0s assistant uses to take your blood pressure prior to your annual […]

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