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Your diet plays a crucial role in your blood pressure and the foods you eat can either lower or raise your numbers, explains Melissa Prest, D.C.N., R.D.N., national media spokesperson for the ...
Some weight loss medications may affect blood sugar levels and interact with diabetes medications. This can lead to hypoglycemia (lower-than-normal blood sugar) or changes in glycemic control ...
Staying at a healthy weight, eating a healthy diet, managing stress, getting enough sleep, and controlling blood pressure, and cholesterol and triglyceride levels can help prevent heart disease.
If lifestyle changes are not sufficient, blood pressure medications are used. [8] Up to three medications taken concurrently can control blood pressure in 90% of people. [5] The treatment of moderately high arterial blood pressure (defined as >160/100 mmHg) with medications is associated with an improved life expectancy. [15]
Eat a healthy, balanced diet. Both depression itself and the effects of antidepressants can change your appetite and eating habits, causing you to eat less and lose weight or eat more and gain weight.
For most people, recommendations are to reduce blood pressure to less than or equal to somewhere between 140/90 mmHg and 160/100 mmHg. [2] In general, for people with elevated blood pressure, attempting to achieve lower levels of blood pressure than the recommended 140/90 mmHg will create more harm than benefits, [3] in particular for older people. [4]
The DASH diet reduced systolic blood pressure by 6 mm Hg and diastolic blood pressure by 3 mm Hg in patients with high normal blood pressure (formerly called "pre-hypertension"). Those with hypertension dropped by 11 and 6 mm Hg, respectively. These changes in blood pressure occurred with no changes in body weight.
Research shows that up to 60% of the weight loss from prescription medications may come from lean body mass. Muscle loss can affect strength and mobility, so eating enough protein to preserve lean ...