Managing 8 Risk Factors Can Help Hypertensive Patients Live Longer: Study
New Delhi: A new study led by researchers suggests that people with high blood pressure can significantly reduce and possibly eliminate their increased risk of premature death by controlling several key health risk factors at once. The findings are published in Precision Clinical Medicine.
The study tracked more than 70,000 people with hypertension and over 224,000 without it, using data from the UK Biobank. Researchers followed participants for nearly 14 years to understand how managing these risk factors affected early mortality -- defined as dying before age 80.
The eight health risk factors evaluated in the study include blood pressure, body mass index, waist circumference, LDL "bad" cholesterol, blood sugar, kidney function, smoking status, and physical activity. Notably, researchers found that hypertensive patients who had addressed at least four of these risk factors had no greater risk of an early death than those without high blood pressure.
Hypertension, defined as a blood pressure of 130 mmHg or higher, is the leading preventable risk factor for premature death worldwide.
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