{"id":9265,"date":"2014-01-31T13:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=9265"},"modified":"2022-03-09T04:42:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T09:42:04","slug":"are-prostate-problems-caused-by-high-blood-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2014\/01\/31\/are-prostate-problems-caused-by-high-blood-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Prostate Problems Caused By High Blood Pressure?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/prostate_problem.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9268 alignleft\" alt=\"prostate_problem\" src=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/prostate_problem-300x300.jpeg\" width=\"270\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/prostate_problem-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/prostate_problem-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/prostate_problem-60x60.jpeg 60w, https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/prostate_problem-70x70.jpeg 70w, https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/prostate_problem.jpeg 346w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a>So many times we hear about the dangers of one disease causing another (or more).<\/p>\n<p>For example, if you\u2019re diabetic, it\u2019 almost a guarantee that you\u2019ll have high blood pressure and high cholesterol.<\/p>\n<p>And so it is with the body\u2019s many systems\u2026they don\u2019t operate as silos. They each affect one another- sometimes directly and sometimes indirectly.<\/p>\n<p>The cardiovascular and reproductive systems are a good example, as identified in a new study out of Europe linking prostate problems and high blood pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Disturbingly, this research is now showing that high blood pressure is responsible for enlarged prostate and even prostatitis.<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to find risk factors for prostate cancer, researchers in Umea University Hospital in Sweden looked for contributors that weren\u2019t known culprits, such as age and family history are.\u00a0 Until now, other risk factors have been fairly elusive.<\/p>\n<p>Two certain factors became clear, though, in the study involving almost 290,000 men from all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>The highest risk factors once age and family history were factored out were high blood pressure and a high body Mass Index, or BMI.<\/p>\n<p>A correlation was observed among men who suffer from a high blood pressure; as systolic pressure grows, equally so does the risk of dying from prostate cancer.<\/p>\n<p>A similar trajectory was seen in men\u2019s BMI, with those having the unhealthiest BMI also having the highest risk of dying from prostate cancer.<\/p>\n<p>It was not clear if the high blood pressure or high BMI were direct causes of prostate cancer in the first place, as more research needs to be done, but the study did narrow down potential areas of more research, namely looking at what kind of changes the BP and BMI cause to the vessels and nerve function in the prostate that encourage cancerous cell growth.<\/p>\n<p>Blood pressure shouldn\u2019t lead to developing other problems.\u00a0<b> <a href=\"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/health\/blood-pressure-exercises-vsl\/\" target=\"_parent\" rel=\"noopener\"> Get it back to normal in just minutes a day, without side effect-causing drugs. Learn more here\u2026 <\/a> <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So many times we hear about the dangers of one disease causing another (or more). For example, if you\u2019re diabetic, it\u2019 almost a guarantee that you\u2019ll have high blood pressure and high cholesterol. And so it is with the body\u2019s many systems\u2026they don\u2019t operate as silos. They each affect one another- sometimes directly and sometimes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":9268,"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":[36,7,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-high-blood-pressure","category-prostate"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/prostate_problem.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9265","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=9265"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25301,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9265\/revisions\/25301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}