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Systematic Reviews of Treatments for High Blood Pressure
Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of treatments for managing high blood pressure.
Reviewed November 2011
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| Title: | Effects of low sodium diet versus high sodium diet on blood pressure, renin, aldosterone, catecholamines, cholesterol, and triglyceride |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | We are commonly advised to cut down on salt. The previous version of this review looked at mostly short-term strategies to reduce salt intake. In the present updated version separate analyses of studies with a duration of 2 to 4 weeks or longer were per... |
| Date: | Oct 2011 |
| Title: | Creatine and creatine analogues in hypertension and cardiovascular disease |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Creatine kinase is an enzyme that regenerates cellular ATP, which is used for energy demanding processes. This review evaluated existing therapeutic strategies that target the creatine kinase system in cardiovascular disease. The available trials indic... |
| Date: | Jul 2011 |
| Title: | Long-term effects of weight-reducing diets in hypertensive patients |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Compared to the general population, patients with high blood pressure have a higher risk for death and complications such as heart attack or stroke. Based on the association of increased weight and increased blood pressure, dietary interventions to lowe... |
| Date: | May 2011 |
| Title: | Bed rest with or without hospitalisation for hypertension during pregnancy |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Not enough evidence to say if bed rest in pregnancy helps women and their babies when women have high blood pressure. High blood pressure in pregnant women can contribute to babies being small, being born too soon and having considerable health problems... |
| Date: | Jan 2010 |
| Title: | Umbilical artery catheters in the newborn: effects of heparin |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | The umbilical artery catheters (tubes) (UACs) commonly used in neonatal intensive care to monitor babies can sometimes cause them problems. They can be placed in high or low positions, and come in different materials and designs. The blood anticoagulant... |
| Date: | Aug 2009 |
| Title: | Interventions used to improve control of blood pressure in patients with hypertension |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | There is little evidence as to how care for hypertensive patients should be organized and delivered in the community to help improve blood pressure control. This review aimed to determine the effectiveness of interventions whose objective was to improve... |
| Date: | Jul 2008 |
| Title: | Balloon angioplasty versus medical therapy for hypertensive patients with renal artery obstruction |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Atherosclerosis can cause narrowing and hardening of the main blood vessel supplying the kidneys (renal artery stenosis) and resulting high blood pressure. Even using drugs that lower blood pressure (antihypertensives), atherosclerotic renal artery narr... |
| Date: | Jun 2008 |
| Title: | Relaxation therapies for the management of primary hypertension in adults |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | The World Health Organisation estimates that high blood pressure leads to over 7 million deaths each year, about 13% of the total deaths worldwide. If people lower their blood pressure, they are less likely to die or to have heart attacks and strokes. I... |
| Date: | Nov 2007 |
| Title: | Magnesium supplementation for the management of primary hypertension in adults |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | This review examined whether taking magnesium supplements could be recommended for treating adults with high blood pressure from no known cause. It reviewed 12 trials enrolling 545 people, which compared magnesium supplementation with a dummy drug (plac... |
| Date: | Aug 2006 |
| Title: | Calcium supplementation for the management of primary hypertension in adults |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | This review did not find robust evidence that oral calcium supplementation reduces high blood pressure in adults. It reviewed 13 trials enrolling 485 people, which compared calcium supplementation with placebo or no treatment, and measured blood pressur... |
| Date: | May 2006 |
| Title: | Potassium supplementation for the management of primary hypertension in adults |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | This review examines whether taking potassium supplements can be recommended for treating adults with high blood pressure from no known cause. The results of the trials varied a lot: some trials found potassium lowered blood pressure much more than a du... |
| Date: | Apr 2006 |
| Title: | Effect of longer-term modest salt reduction on blood pressure |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Current public health recommendations in most developed countries are to reduce salt intake by about half, i.e. from approximately 10 grams per day to 5 grams per day. Our pooled analysis of randomised trials of 4 weeks or more in duration showed that r... |
| Date: | May 2005 |
| Title: | Advice to reduce dietary salt for prevention of cardiovascular disease |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Intensive support and encouragement to reduce salt intake did lead to reduction in salt eaten. It also lowered blood pressure but only by a small amount (about 1 mmHg for systolic blood pressure, less for diastolic) after more than a year. This reductio... |
| Date: | Nov 2003 |
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