prevention of hypertension

^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Management

healthy lifestyle habits are associated with a lower incidence of hypertension^[2]
- keeping a normal weight
- exercising regularly
- drinking moderately
- consuming nuts (men)^[2]
- adherence to DASH diet (women)^[1]
- probiotics may be of benefit^[4]
pharmaceutical measures to reduce risk
- infrequent use of nonnarcotic analgesics
- folic acid supplementation (women)^[1]^[2]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Forman JP Diet and Lifestyle Risk Factors Associated With Incident Hypertension in Women
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 Djousse L et al Nut consumption and risk of hypertension in US male physicians. Clin Nutr. 2009 Feb;28(1):10-4. Epub 2008 Oct 2. PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18834651
↑ Forman JP et al. Diet and lifestyle risk factors associated with incident hypertension in women. JAMA 2009 Jul 22/29; 302:401. PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19622819
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Khalesi S et al Effect of Probiotics on Blood Pressure. A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized, Controlled Trials. Hypertension. July 21, 2014 <PubMed> PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25047574 <Internet> http://hyper.ahajournals.org/content/early/2014/07/21/HYPERTENSIONAHA.114.03469