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Article: Lifestyle changes significantly lower blood pressure and heart disease risk.
- Article from:
- Heart Disease Weekly
- Article date:
- June 15, 2003
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2003 JUN 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Patients with hypertension can lower their blood pressure by strategies involving multiple lifestyle modifications, according to the results of the PREMIER clinical trial published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
"Weight loss, sodium reduction, increased physical activity, and limited alcohol intake are established recommendations that reduce blood pressure," stated Lawrence J. Appel at Johns Hopkins University and fellow members of the Writing Group of the PREMIER Collaborative Research Group. "The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet ...