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The dangerous side effects of antihypertensive drugs can outweigh the potential benefits of those drugs, at least until blood pressure is more seriously elevated. This is why it is so important to find nonpharmaceutical strategies for lowering blood pressure. The good news is that those strategies only have positive side effects.
References
1. Kramer H, Cooper R. Pros and Cons of Intensive Systolic Blood Pressure Lowering. Curr Hypertens Rep. 2018;20(2):16. Published 2018 Mar 6. doi:10.1007/s11906-018-0806-x
2. Goldhamer A, Lisle D, Parpia B, Anderson SV, Campbell TC. Medically supervised water-only fasting in the treatment of hypertension. J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2001;24(5):335-339. doi:10.1067/mmt.2001.115263
3. Kaplan NM. Clinical hypertension. 7th ed. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins; 1998. P. 13, 14, 133-363
4. Dimmitt SB, Stampfer HG, Martin JH, Ferner RE. Efficacy and toxicity of antihypertensive pharmacotherapy relative to effective dose 50. Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2019;85(10):2218-2227. doi:10.1111/bcp.14033
The dangerous side effects of antihypertensive drugs can outweigh the potential benefits of those drugs, at least until blood pressure is more seriously elevated. This is why it is so important to find nonpharmaceutical strategies for lowering blood pressure. The good news is that those strategies only have positive side effects.
References
1. Kramer H, Cooper R. Pros and Cons of Intensive Systolic Blood Pressure Lowering. Curr Hypertens Rep. 2018;20(2):16. Published 2018 Mar 6. doi:10.1007/s11906-018-0806-x
2. Goldhamer A, Lisle D, Parpia B, Anderson SV, Campbell TC. Medically supervised water-only fasting in the treatment of hypertension. J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2001;24(5):335-339. doi:10.1067/mmt.2001.115263
3. Kaplan NM. Clinical hypertension. 7th ed. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins; 1998. P. 13, 14, 133-363
4. Dimmitt SB, Stampfer HG, Martin JH, Ferner RE. Efficacy and toxicity of antihypertensive pharmacotherapy relative to effective dose 50. Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2019;85(10):2218-2227. doi:10.1111/bcp.14033
