{"id":16648,"date":"2017-08-25T13:30:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T17:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=16648"},"modified":"2017-08-08T02:06:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T06:06:30","slug":"pushing-your-blood-pressure-lower-and-lower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2017\/08\/25\/pushing-your-blood-pressure-lower-and-lower\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushing Your Blood Pressure Lower and Lower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Blood_pressure_7553930_s-2015.jpg\" alt=\"Pushing Your Blood Pressure Lower And Lower\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16735\" \/>The official recommendation by most health organizations suggests that your systolic pressure should be lowered to at least 140 mmHg.<\/p>\n<p>A new study now suggests that, while this might cut your risk of cardiovascular disease and preventable death by a bit, it still leaves you at rather serious risk of these two outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists from Tulane University have now analyzed 42 previous studies (with 144,220 participants) on blood pressure reduction, which they published in the journal <em>JAMA Cardiology.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to most of these trials, the optimal systolic blood pressure score to prevent cardiovascular disease and death is between 120 and 124.<\/p>\n<p>A systolic score between 120 and 140 is normally called pre-hypertension. It is the level where doctors don&#8217;t consider you to be at risk of serious cardiovascular problems or death, but only at a higher risk of developing full-blown hypertension.<\/p>\n<p>This new study now indicates that they are wrong, and that pre-hypertension does leave you at risk of serious cardiovascular problems and death.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you\u2019ve systolic blood pressure above 120, do not despair. <a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/health\/?page_id=472\">Instead, click this link to learn 3 easy exercises that will bring your blood pressure below 120\/80 \u2013 starting today\u2026<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official recommendation by most health organizations suggests that your systolic pressure should be lowered to at least 140 mmHg. A new study now suggests that, while this might cut your risk of cardiovascular disease and preventable death by a bit, it still leaves you at rather serious risk of these two outcomes. Scientists from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":16735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-high-blood-pressure"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Blood_pressure_7553930_s-2015.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}