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Acupuncture useful for hypertension
Categories: Hypertension
Current evidence shows that acupuncture can be used for treating hypertension, and it may have similar effects to common medications ...
Metabolic and microbiome modulation play a role in acupuncture's effect on hypertension
Categories: Basic research, Hypertension
Chinese researchers have used metabolomic analysis to differentiate between the effects of active and inactive acupoints in treating hypertension ...
Moxibustion can lower blood pressure
Categories: Hypertension
A pilot study carried out in Korea suggests that moxibustion can lower blood pressure in patients with hypertension ...
Acupuncture helps reduce blood pressure (BP) in preeclampsia
Categories: Pregnancy & Labour, Hypertension
A pilot prospective cohort study from China suggests that acupuncture may be a useful adjunctive treatment for reducing blood pressure (BP) in women with preeclampsia ...
Tai chi improves blood parameters in hypertension patients
Categories: Tai chi, Hypertension
Tai chi (TC) has beneficial effects on blood pressure (BP) and levels of gaseous cellular signaling molecules in the blood of patients with essential hypertension (EH)...
Acupuncture regulation of blood pressure
Categories: Acupuncture research, Hypertension
American authors who have spent the last two decades investigating the neural mechanisms underlying the ability of acupuncture to regulate blood pressure have summarised their work in a review paper.
Acupuncture reduces blood pressure in medicated hypertensive patients
Categories: Hypertension
Patients with high blood pressure who are taking anti-hypertensive medication may benefit from adjunctive acupuncture treatment, according to a small study carried out in Turkey. Investigators studied 34 patients who had been on anti-hypertensive drug therapy for at least 24 months and who were experiencing side-effects such as fatigue, dizziness, weakness, headache, joint pain, sleeping problems, ...
Herbal formula comparable with anti-hypertension drugs
Categories: Diabetes, Hypertension
A multi-centre clinical trial conducted in China has found that a Chinese herbal formula may have therapeutic value in patients with both hypertension and metabolic syndrome, comparing favourably with the anti-hypertension drug irbesartan.
Electro-acupuncture reduces hypotension during liver transplant
Categories: Miscellaneous disorders, Hypertension
Electro-acupuncture (EA) has an effect equal to noradrenaline in reducing hypotension during anesthesia in patients undergoing liver transplantation, according to an Iranian research team.
Qigong improves blood-pressure in wheelchair-bound elderly
The findings of a Chinese study suggest that qigong exercise may help improve blood pressure in elderly wheelchair-bound adults.
Dash for heart health
Categories: Diet research, Hypertension
Adherence to the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet is associated with a lower risk of coronary heart disease and stroke among middle-aged women. Researchers followed the food choices and health status of more than 88,000 American women for almost 25 years. Those with those eating habits were closest to the DASH diet, which recommends fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low-fat milk ...
Coffee may increase hypertension
Categories: Diet research, Hypertension
Coffee drinking seems to increase the risk of requiring antihypertensive drug treatment. Researchers determined daily coffee consumption via questionnaire in 24,710 Finnish subjects and observed them prospectively over 13 years. They concluded that coffee drinking was associated with a slightly increased risk of requiring antihypertensive treatment. This risk was higher in subjects with low-to-mod ...
Liver yang rising? Anger causes blood to rush to the head
Categories: Lifestyle research, Hypertension
The popular belief that anger provokes a rush of blood to the head has been proved by new research. Experiments in an American lab showed that blood flow to the brain increased significantly in people experiencing mental stress. Fifty-eight volunteers, half healthy and half suffering from high blood pressure, were put through a series of tasks designed to cause mental strain, including recalling m ...
Anger and stress are bad for the heart
Categories: Lifestyle research, Hypertension
Anger and stress in middle-aged men and women are associated with developing high blood pressure and coronary heart disease (CHD). Investigators analysed data from an American cohort study of 15,792 subjects aged 45-64 at enrolment. Participants were followed up over 11 years for the development of hypertension (blood pressure >139 systolic or >89 diastolic) and CHD events. Subjects underwen ...
Acupuncture can improve endothelial dysfunction in hypertension
Categories: Stroke, Hypertension
A Korean study has shown that acupuncture can improve endothelial dysfunction in patients with hypertension. The pilot, double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover trial randomly assigned 15 patients with essential hypertension to a sequence of four acupuncture treatment phases, each lasting 15 minutes, with a seven-day washout period in between. Needles were inserted at bilateral Zusanli ST-36; Ne ...
Acupuncture for hypertension
Categories: Hypertension
Korean authors have carried out a systematic review of acupuncture for the treatment of essential hypertension. Twenty trials were included, of which only three were considered relatively rigorous. Acupuncture achieved significant effect modification on blood pressure compared with controls. In the high-quality trials, blood pressure was significantly lower with acupuncture plus antihypertensive d ...
Tai chi reduces blood pressure
Categories: Tai chi, Hypertension
A systematic review of the literature on the effect of tai chi exercise on blood pressure (BP) suggests that it may reduce BP and serve as a practical, non-pharmacological adjunct to conventional hypertension management. Of the 26 studies that met the inclusion criteria, 22 (85%) reported reductions in BP with tai chi (3-32 mm Hg systolic and 2-18 mm Hg diastolic BP reductions). (The effect of tai ...
Acupuncture and cardiovascular disease
Categories: Heart / Cardiac, Hypertension
The Susan Samueli Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of California has received a $2 million, five-year federal grant to continue studying how acupuncture can help treat cardiovascular illnesses such as heart disease, hypertension and arrhythmias. This grant extends a previous five-year grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. The study, lead by Dr. John Longhurst, a ...
Acupuncture promising for hypertension care
Categories: Hypertension
The effects of acupuncture as an add-on to conventional antihypertensive management methods (medication and/or lifestyle modification) were investigated.
Acupuncture as good as drugs for hypertension
Categories: Hypertension
A rigorous, randomised, single-blind, Western trial comparing acupuncture with sham needling suggests that acupuncture may decrease blood pressure in hypertensive patients by a similar amount to that achieved using pharmaceutical therapy.
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