Mindfulness Therapy Doesn’t Lower Blood Pressure, Canadian Study Finds

Mindfulness-based stress reduction is a program that helps people learn about their relationship with their thoughts, emotions, behaviours and sensations. The technique, which involves deep-breathing techniques also used in yoga, has been shown to be effective in helping to control anxiety and cancer-related pain. Senior author Dr. Sheldon Tobe says he was surprised mindfulness did not result in lower blood pressure, because cognitive behavioural therapy has been shown to be useful in hypertension. In fact, studies of cognitive behavioural therapy suggest it lowers blood pressure on average as well as a single hypertension drug at a starting dose would do.
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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Could Help Lower Blood Pressure

This unique algorithm interprets and evaluates the entire blood pressure measurement, providing meaningful early warning alerts of possible emerging Arrhythmias, Valvular and Coronary Arterial conditions to the clinical staff and patient. It is envisaged that this unique patented technology will change the relevance of the traditional automated blood pressure measurement, from that of an interesting trend measurement to a necessary useful predictive indicator of impending valvular and coronary heart disease or cardiac arrest. The 3SI algorithm will be available in all OSTAR products with a view to make it available for OEM arrangements if customer demand dictates. The OSTAR 3SI interpretive algorithm is a natural progression, based on customer driven demand and the ongoing commitment to solving heart disease while presenting a cohesive predictive tool to the global clinical and patient world. “Over the long run this form of automated blood pressure algorithm could have an even greater impact than advent interpretive ECG algorithms or AED defibrillators,” as stated by Paul A Markham President of V3 Healthcare Strategies. The result is reduced cost to healthcare systems and ultimately, to the American healthcare consumer.
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Blood Pressure Management Changed on Global Level with OSTAR’s 3SI Interpretive Blood Pressure Algorithm

Research has shown that the strategies could decrease levels of the stress hormone cortisol, lessen pain for people with certain chronic conditions, lower risk of depression and even improve sleep. Also on HuffPost: Loading Slideshow Meditate Meditation can help maintain a calm and focused mind, but one side benefit of that relaxation could also help with blood pressure. When relaxed, the body produces more nitric oxide, which in turn helps blood vessels to open up, reducing the pressure of the blood flowing through. Adopt A Pet Research shows that pet owners have lower blood pressure (also: lower cholesterol and heart disease risk), thanks to the anxiety-reducing qualities of an animal companion.
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Hormone Replacement Therapy May Reduce Pancreatic Cancer Risk

Hormone therapy: Is it right for you?

Factors not taken into account by the researchers may be responsible for the links. In addition, pancreatic cancer is rare, so the risk of any woman in the study developing the condition was small. The reason for the opposite findings is not clear, the researchers said. But they speculate that the formulation and dose of estrogen in the different medications could play a role.
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The findings suggest ghrelin could actually predispose people to post-traumatic stress disorder , said researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and that identifying ways to decrease ghrelin could potentially protect high-risk people from developing the condition. “Perhaps we could give people who are going to be deployed into an active combat zone a ghrelin vaccine before they go, so they will have a lower incidence of PTSD,” study researcher Ki Goosens, an assistant professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the university, said in a statement. “That’s exciting because right now there’s nothing given to people to prevent PTSD.” The study is published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry . Researchers gave rats a ghrelin receptor-stimulating drug, or gene therapy to increase the expression of a growth hormone produced in the amygdala. Ghrelin increases production of this growth hormone in the amygdala in the face of stress.
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Ghrelin, Appetite Hormone, Could Increase Susceptibility To PTSD

Although the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) still approves estrogen for the prevention of the bone-thinning disease called osteoporosis, doctors usually recommend medications called bisphosphonates to treat osteoporosis. Low-dose vaginal products. Low-dose vaginal preparations of estrogen which come in cream, tablet or ring form can effectively treat vaginal symptoms and some urinary symptoms, while minimizing absorption into the body. Low-dose vaginal preparations do not help with hot flashes, night sweats or protection against osteoporosis.
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