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Abstract 4143445: Regardless of age or gender, diet quality, smoking status, and, exercise are key to cardiovascular health

Circulation

However, the moderating effects of age and gender on the relationship of diet quality, smoking status, and exercise to cardiovascular health are unknown. Healthy lifestyle (diet quality, not smoking, and exercise) was also defined using a self-administered questionnaire. 86% female).

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Should you take medications for high blood pressure lifelong?

All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

The answer depends on what caused your high blood pressure. What are the reversible causes of high blood pressure? A transient drop in kidney function due to some illness (acute kidney injury) can raise the blood pressure. In this situation blood pressure medication can certainly be stopped.

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How to control high blood pressure without medications

All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

Just because you have been told that your blood pressure is above normal need not mean that you are tied up to medications lifelong. Changes in lifestyle can definitely bring down your blood pressure even without medications. One of the important ways in which to reduce elevated blood pressure is by reducing extra weight.

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Physiology Friday #215: Sitting Less Improves Blood Pressure

Physiologically Speaking

Even those of us who exercise for 1–2 hours per day still spend a large part of our day engaging in sedentary behavior (which, by the way, exercise doesn’t make us immune to). That’s better, but this behavioral category is missing the benefits of highly structured exercise.

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Live well, think well: Research shows healthy habits tied to brain health

Science Daily - Heart Disease

In middle-aged people, having risk factors like blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol that are not well-controlled combined with not following certain healthy habits including exercise, diet and sleep, are linked to a higher risk of stroke, dementia or depression later in life, according to a new study.

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Diet, ExerCIse and CarDiovascular hEalth–Salt

American College of Cardiology

The goal of the DECIDE-Salt trial was to evaluate a salt substitute compared with usual salt among Chinese individuals with normal blood pressure.

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Physiology Friday #237: An Evolutionary Perspective on Why Exercise Promotes Longevity

Physiologically Speaking

In his book “ Exercised: why something we never evolved to do is healthy and rewarding ”, evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman coins the term —  exercists  — which he broadly defines as people who espouse the benefits, joys, and importance of regular exercise, sometimes to a fault.

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