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July 31, 2014 By Karen

Probiotics may help lower blood pressure

Having probiotics  (found in live yogurt, fermented and sour milk, probiotic cheese, probiotic supplements, drinks, miso soup and other foods) has a modest effect on lowering blood pressure, according to the results of  a study analysing other studies on the subject (a meta-anaysis)

Better reductions were seen in people who had higher blood pressure and who took multiple probiotics. Taking probiotics for longer was more beneficial.

“However, even a small reduction of blood pressure may have important public health benefits and cardiovascular consequences,” states Dr Saman Khalesi (Griffith University, Australia) in the article published July 21 in Hypertension.

Just a small reduction in blood pressure was associated with a 22% relative reduction in risk of cardiovascular mortality, MI, or stroke.

Khalesi S, Sun J, Buys N, Jayasinghe R. Effect of probiotics on blood pressure: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized, controlled trials. Hypertension 2014; DOI:10.161/hypertensionaha.114.03469. Abstract

Filed Under: General News, Medical articles on diet, New medical / research articles Tagged With: #bloodpressure, #hypertension, #probiotics

June 18, 2012 By Karen

Salt and blood pressure

Salt intake may not affect blood pressure

The Journal of the American Medical Association recently published a study investigating the relationship between salt and high blood pressure (hypertension). This study (3,681 people) correlated salt intake, high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease and death. People with greater salt excretion were found to have significantly less heart disease and less death from cardiovascular disease.

Published in the May 4 2011 issue of JAMA, the study examined health outcomes related to salt intake by measuring the amount of sodium excreted in urine. Lower sodium excretion was associated with increased risk of cardiovascular death, higher sodium excretion did not increase risk of hypertension or cardiovascular disease complications.

“The assumption that lower salt intake would, in the long run, lower blood pressure, to our knowledge, has not yet been confirmed in longitudinal population-based studies.” said the study, which concluded that associations between systolic pressure and sodium excretion did not mean less morbidity or improved survival.

Low sodium excretion was a predictor of higher rates of death from cardiovascular disease.

Authors say that these current findings do not support current recommendations of generalised and indiscriminate reduction of salt intake for everyone. Only in hypertensive patients did reducing salt in the diet lower blood pressure.

Interestingly, the JAMA study shows that a slight decrease in blood pressure occurs with lowered salt intake but did not affect blood pressure other than in patients with existing hypertension.

Filed Under: General News, Medical articles on diet Tagged With: #bloodpressure, #diet, #healthyeating, #nutritionadvice, #salt

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