More is not always good, especially when it comes to taking medications to control blood pressure. In fact, it can result in some serious complications as proved by a study conducted in Yale School of Medicine.
Blood Pressure medications cause many complications of which dizziness and balance problems are the most common. The study published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, however, notes something REALLY shocking!
In fact, the worst side effects of blood pressure medications, the one that are most likely to land you in the emergency room, are not put on any warning label.
Blood pressure medications increase the risk of serious injuries due to accidental falling by 30 to 40 percent in elderly people!
These injuries have almost the same effect as debilitating diseases like heart attack and stroke in functional loss and mortality rate.
For the study, the team of researchers collected data on around 5000 people over the age of 70, who suffered from high blood pressure. Of these, 14 percent did not take any medications to control blood pressure, 55 percent took moderate amount of medications while 31 percent took several medications to control blood pressure.
The study spanned for three years, and over this period, 446 patients suffered serious injuries like hip fracture or head injury. It was found that those who took medications for controlling blood pressure were at a higher risk of serious injuries compared to those who did not take any medications. More elaborately, 7.5 percent in the no medications group, 9.8 percent in the moderate intensity medication group and 8.2 percent in the high intensity medication group suffered serious injuries.
Falls, in elderly people above 65 years, account for 10 percent of emergency ward visits and 6 percent hospitalization. Decline in activities, restricted movement and need for placement in nursing homes result due to falls and serious injuries.
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pls what will be d solution to does who have blood pressure, if taking medicine is now causing problem
I’ve invested more than 9 yrs of my time learning & applying the facts of alternative medication..& yet I realized there’s more to learn. knowledge is bottomless, indeed.
Dear Blue Heron team
thank you for the productive service that you deliver to the mankind. I daily receive the health bulletin and usually shares with colleagues who are suffering the same issues that you talk about with facts and figures.
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I was told to take Hydralazine by my Dr’s nurse practitioner to lower my BP. I was prescribed two a day. After taking them for a few days I became very weak and dizzy while doing some yard work. I checked my BP and it had dropped to 88. I sat down and checked it every 10 minutes and it rose each 10 minutes until it got back to 120 which I like. Unable to make contact with the nurse so have dropped back to one a day instead of two and my BP is running in the 120 range now. Was running in the 140 and 150 range before. Age is 94.
thamks for this information.
As I read your article about high BP which I have, the symptoms that I have are consistent to those you described. My BP hovers all over the board 190/100/90 reaching levels of up to 211/110/90. By taking the medication it has drop to 140/90/54, yet I feel like crap…..have no energy and fall a sleep constantly. Is there any other alternative, a friend of ours recently passed away as a result of head injuries he sustained when he fell in the shower and been in coma for over two weeks. I do not want to be another statistic…..
What is ‘normal’ blood pressure? Dr. John Bergman has a lot of common sense info and one is blood pressure is an individual reading. The blood pressure cuff is over 100 years old and a newer method is Pulse Pressure –top number minus bottom number with 40 being normal. Go find his videos and learn something new.
where is the rest of the article? So annoying