Salty foods would have to take a backseat for those with resistant high blood pressure. This term is used to define anyone who continues to have high-blood pressures even after taking three medications to try lowering it (Reinberg 2008). A person is also considered to have resistant high blood pressure if it takes more than three medicines to decrease its level. Associated Press reported a study in which people with such illness were put into a research project. The study aimed to find out whether the amount of salt in a diet would help quell resistant high-blood pressure. The answer was a yes. Those who were given low-salt diets ended up having a more normal blood pressure than those who were placed under a high-salt diet. The results are probably not too counter-intuitive, but it does provide one more anecdotal advice for those dealing with high blood pressure. I advice, however, that people take this study with a grain of salt (pun intended), because only 13 patients were tested in this research. The sample could possibly be too small to actually be representative of the whole population of people suffering from high-blood pressure.
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20080920/hl_hsn/saltcontributestoresistanthighbloodpressure;_ylt=AiTbYrpKEUKnKVBm8NDLGyqCSbYF
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