{"id":21029,"date":"2019-10-17T13:30:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T17:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=21029"},"modified":"2019-10-17T07:06:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T11:06:22","slug":"these-blood-pressure-drugs-double-cancer-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2019\/10\/17\/these-blood-pressure-drugs-double-cancer-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"These Blood Pressure Drugs Double Cancer Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BP-247756051.jpg\" alt=\"These Blood Pressure Drugs Double Cancer Risk\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9399\" \/>One of the most prescribed high blood pressure medications has been proven to more than double your risk of a specific type of cancer.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to a new study from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, recently published in <em>JAMA Internal Medicine.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, not everyone is at risk.<\/p>\n<p>Those who take the calcium channel blockers are developing invasive ductal and invasive lobular cancers at a rate of 2.5 times their peers.<\/p>\n<p>Calcium channel blockers reduce hypertension by dilating the blood vessels because they inhibit the flow of calcium into muscle cells. <\/p>\n<p>Some scientists believe that their tendency to change the way cells function is the reason why they are more likely to cause cells to malfunction and become cancerous.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you\u2019re taking calcium channel blockers, talk to your doctor about ways to get off them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Because lowering blood pressure to normal levels doesn\u2019t have to be dangerous or difficult. <a href=\"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/health\/blood-pressure-exercises-vsl\/\">I dropped my blood pressure the easy way with these three easy exercises, which are 100 percent natural and require no drugs\u2026<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most prescribed high blood pressure medications has been proven to more than double your risk of a specific type of cancer. This is according to a new study from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, recently published in JAMA Internal Medicine. Fortunately, not everyone is at risk. Those who take the calcium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":21098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-21029","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\/2019\/10\/BP-247756051.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21029","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=21029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}