A Healthy Diet and Lifestyle Could Off Set Hypertension in Many Women

A healthy diet and lifestyle could off set hypertension in many women, so recent American research has highlighted.
Women who adhere to six kinds of healthy behaviours: daily exercise, a low salt diet, modest alcohol intake, irregular use of analgesics and folic acid supplementation were at 78% lower risk of getting hypertension, so this study undertaken at Harvard University highlights.
Most of the study’s hypertension cases were attributable to an unhealthy lifestyle and diet, especially in regard to body mass index, so the researchers reported in the July 22/29 Journal of the American Medical Association.
All participants were informed that maintaining a healthy weight, daily exercise and eating correctly could prevent hypertension and have additional health benefits .
Not one woman had hypertension, cancer or cardiovascular disease when the study started. However, 15% of them developed hypertension over the next 14 years.
The changeable lifestyle variable most strongly linked to risk was body mass index. Obese women were 4.7 times more susceptible to getting hypertension than women with a BMI under 23.0 kg/m2.
On the whole, 40% of the hypertension was potentially attributable to being overweight or obesity, and 50% could possibly be linked to a BMI of 23.0 kg/m2 and above.
Overall, the more of these healthy behaviors participants adapted, the lower their risk of getting hypertension became.
The study was financed by the American Heart Association and National Institutes of Health.