Deans' stroke musings: Vegetarian Diet: A Prescription for High Blood Pressure? A Systematic Review of the Literature

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Thursday, July 14, 2016

Vegetarian Diet: A Prescription for High Blood Pressure? A Systematic Review of the Literature

Looks like click bait to me, Just a hook to get you to buy the article.
http://www.npjournal.org/article/S1555-4155%2816%2930074-5/abstract?rss=yes

Tanya M. Garbett, MSN, FNP

Donald L. Garbett, RN, MD

AnnMarie Wendorf, DNP, APRN-BC

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nurpra.2016.04.013

Highlights

•Hypertension is a growing international health issue increasing in prevalence over time and over the lifespan, with a significant economic cost.
•The prevalence of hypertension varies by population and diet.
•Those adhering to vegetarian and, to a greater degree, vegan diets have a significantly lower prevalence of hypertension compared with nonvegetarians relative to others in their own geographic and/or cultural population.
•Adhering to a vegetarian or vegan diet may be an adjunct and/or preventive treatment for hypertension.

Abstract

Hypertension is one of the most costly and poorly treated medical conditions in the United States and around the world. Consequences of hypertension include morbidity and mortality related to its long-term effects, which include stroke, myocardial infarction, renal failure, limb loss, aortic aneurysm, and atrial fibrillation, among many others. Although there is an armamentarium of medications to treat hypertension, we do little for prevention. In this review we examine the relationship between vegetarian and nonvegetarian diets and the prevalence of hypertension.