Roughly 27% of the US adult population suffers from high blood pressure or hypertension, yet less than one quarter of these individuals are taking medication to control their condition.
The report, based on a survey of more than 16,000 adults aged 25 or older, indicates that about 27% of respondents had blood pressure of at least 140/90 mm Hg. But only 23% of these individuals were taking medication to bring their blood pressure down to safe levels.
What's more, 31% of people with high blood pressure were unaware of their condition, the researchers note.
Access to and use of healthcare played only a minor role in whether or not a person with high blood pressure received treatment. Some 92% of people with uncontrolled hypertension had health insurance, and about 75% of those unaware of their hypertension had had their blood pressure measured within the past year.
Hypertensive individuals were more likely to have elevated systolic pressure, the top number in the reading, which measures pressure when the heart contracts.
Studies have shown that in elderly people, this number is more closely associated with heart disease risk than diastolic pressure, the bottom number that refers to blood pressure levels while the heart is between beats.
The New England Journal of Medicine August 14, 2001; 345:479-486, 534-535
They need to understand that following the nutrition plan will normalize blood pressure in about 75 percent of people. I have helped many hundreds of people to get off their high blood pressure medicine with this method.
The remaining individuals typically have some type of emotional stress causing excessive output of the adrenals, which responds very favorably to normalization of these stresses.
It seems to be the rare individual who does not respond to some combination or permutation of the above approaches, but another natural option is the enzyme nattokinase (derived from the food natto) found in CardioEssentials.
Nattokinase has been used successfully for circulatory problems for over two decades, and CardioEssentials can significantly restore normal blood flow that may impact blood pressure functionally in as little as seven to 10 days (and blood pressure should be carefully monitored during this time).
However, even if all the leaders in traditional medicine accept this information, it will take another generation for the average physician to incorporate these truths into actual practice.
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The more people that understand the truth, the sooner the conventional physician will begin to wake up and stop the nightmare of health care our country is currently facing. They will be economically motivated as half of their waiting rooms will be empty.
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