HSC 3211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Dash Diet, Prehypertension, Comorbidity
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For healthy patients with no known risk factors. Increase recognition of importance of healthy and controlled blood pressure. Reduce ethnic, socioeconomic and regional variation in blood pressure. Patient appears healthy, but has risk factors or has been diagnosed with prehypertension or early stages of the condition. Dash diet fruits, vegetables, low fat dairy can lower blood pressure by 8-14 mmhg. Moderate intake <2. 4 g sodium/day can lower blood pressure by 2-8 mmhg. Moderate intake: < 2 drinks/day in men. Moderate intake: < 1 drink/day in women and small individuals. Can lower blood pressure by 2-4 mmhg. Aerobic physical activity > 30 min/day for most days of the week. Lower intensity exercise seems to be equally, if not more, effective in lowering bp as higher intensities: avoid high intensity exercise and heavy lifting in patient with excessively high bp that is not well controlled. Pediatric patients: 1-2 hours/day (can lower blood pressure by 4-11 mmhg)
