Health Tips

The people over age 65 who are the main target for drugs against high blood pressure (hypertension), you would not really need them, suggests a new representative study published in PLoS Med. According to its blood pressure is a natural tendency to decrease with age, which means that drugs in combination with the natural processes of aging involve the risk of hypotension (low blood pressure), resulting in a person to lose consciousness or be feeling constantly tired and relaxed. Until now it was thought that blood pressure rises with age and therefore prescribed antihypertensive (blood pressure lowering) drugs “just in case”, which besides being unnecessary, could be harmful and. But researchers from University College London found that in one’s life, there are four phases in which, generally speaking, blood pressure rises at the beginning of puberty to age 60, then gradually began to decline.
Of course, due to various factors that influence a person’s life, it is still possible to reach a state of sustained hypertension, which should be treated with appropriate drugs.

You can successfully lower the blood pressure without drugs and to combat hypertension, according to three research made in the U.S. over the past few months:
1. Turn back home earlier
People who work more than 41 hours a week have blood pressure by about 15 percent higher than the other, according to results of observations of scientists from the University of California at Irvine (University of California, Irvine). Working week over 51 hours increases the blood by over 17%. “Long time did not allow a person to eat properly and keep physically active life,” says Professor Yang Hayu and advises: “Learn to say it! tasks at the office when the working day is completed – most cases delayed.
2. Take short walks
Walk 40 minutes a day lowers blood pressure by 5% but will achieve the same effect and if the walks are great but short, the results of a study conducted at Indiana University in Bloomington (Indiana University, Bloomington). According to the observations of most specialists on shorter walks allow blood vessels to relax more often and thus retain its strength and elasticity.
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