E-DRUG: Can blood pressure be lowered by a change in diet? (2)
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Experience at the Hypertension Clinic of the Lagos University Teaching
Hospital from 1969 till 2001 showed that hypertemsive patients who complied
with advice to reduce salt intake had the following results:
(a) those who were mildly hypertensive became normotensive without
anti-hypertensive medication
(b) those who had moderate or severe hypertension were controlled with less
and fewer medications
(c) those who after good control of their hypertension recently attended
social functions (birthday parties, naming ceremonies, weddings, funerals,
etc) where they ate oversalted foods usually served on such occasions had
higher blood pressure levels than at the previous visits; they claimed that
their medications were unchanged.
Without doubt blood pressure can be lowered by a change in diet to a reduced
salt, high fibre diet.
AF Biola Mabadeje
Retired Professor of Clinical Pharmacology College of Medicine of University
of Lagos
Retired Consultant and Head of Hypertension & Renal Clinic
Lagos University Teaching Hospital
Lagos, Nigeria
mailto:biolamab@linkserve.com.ng
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