Got high blood pressure? Try hanging up your cell phone. A study at the annual meeting of American Society of Hypertension in San Francisco found that talking on a mobile phone causes systolic blood pressure - the higher number in a blood presure reading and the number doctors pay attention to as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease - to rise significantly.
Researchers from the Guglielmo da Saliceto Hospital in Piacenz, Italt, took12 blood pressure readings at one-minute intervals from 94 patients with mid hyper-tension. The patient's mean age was 53.
Patient's were seated in a comfortable armchair in a doctors consulting room and left alone after the first blood pressure reading was taken using an automatic device.
Reaserchers phoned the patiends at least three times and found that when the patient was on the phone or receiving a call, their blood presure reading jumped from 121/177 on average to 129/82. The American Heart Association says less than 120/80 is a healthy reading for adults age 20 and older.
Data compiledd by the US Census Bureau using the World Health Organization's (WHO) Study on Global Aging and Adult Health show hypertension to be "by far one of the most common health conditions for those age 50 and older in Russia", with nearlyhalf of 50-to-69-year-olds and almost two-thirds of people over 70 suffering from hypertension. Oddly, though, the researchers found that patiends who got more than 30 alls a day seemed to have developed a form of immunity to the blood pressure spikes seen in the study. Beta-blockers also seemed to help stave off blood pressure spikes. The reasearchers concluded that phone calls received when a mildy hypertensive patient is having a blood pressure reading could cause systolic pressure to spike, & advised that they turn off their phone, at least for the duration of the blood pressure test.
Researchers from the Guglielmo da Saliceto Hospital in Piacenz, Italt, took12 blood pressure readings at one-minute intervals from 94 patients with mid hyper-tension. The patient's mean age was 53.
Patient's were seated in a comfortable armchair in a doctors consulting room and left alone after the first blood pressure reading was taken using an automatic device.
Reaserchers phoned the patiends at least three times and found that when the patient was on the phone or receiving a call, their blood presure reading jumped from 121/177 on average to 129/82. The American Heart Association says less than 120/80 is a healthy reading for adults age 20 and older.
Data compiledd by the US Census Bureau using the World Health Organization's (WHO) Study on Global Aging and Adult Health show hypertension to be "by far one of the most common health conditions for those age 50 and older in Russia", with nearlyhalf of 50-to-69-year-olds and almost two-thirds of people over 70 suffering from hypertension. Oddly, though, the researchers found that patiends who got more than 30 alls a day seemed to have developed a form of immunity to the blood pressure spikes seen in the study. Beta-blockers also seemed to help stave off blood pressure spikes. The reasearchers concluded that phone calls received when a mildy hypertensive patient is having a blood pressure reading could cause systolic pressure to spike, & advised that they turn off their phone, at least for the duration of the blood pressure test.
