Healthy Fruits and Vegetables Intake Daily May be Potent Against the Risk of Hypertension

By Kyle J. Norton

Hypertension is a condition characterized by persistent high blood pressure.

In the US,  approximately, one-third of the adults have hypertension, affecting over 77 million people in the country. 

Additionally, among adults age 20 and older in the United States, in the non-Hispanic whites community, 33.4 percent of men and 30.7 percent of women are infected by the syndrome.

Hypertension is a slowly developed condition. Unless the syndrome has caused damage to the blood vessel, otherwise symptoms cannot be detected.

The cause of hypertension is a result of the hardening and thickening of the arteries (atherosclerosis), due to the slow progression of plaques accumulated on the wall of the arteries.

According to the American Heart Association (AHA) patients with blood pressure that is higher than 130 over 80 millimeters of mercury (mmHg) are considered to have hypertension.

Untreated hypertension may induce complications of heart attack, stroke, and other health conditions.

Some researchers suggested that unhealthy dietary and lifestyle factors highlight the importance of environmental factors in the induction of hypertension onset and progression.

However, according to a special issue of the Journal of Human Hypertension primarily, in the concerns of dietary, lifestyle, and alternative factors in the risk of hypertension and blood pressure control, focusing on dietary and lifestyle factors, complementary and alternative approaches may have a strong impact in prevention and treatment of hypertension.

On finding a potential compound for the treatment of high blood pressure, researchers examined the prospective association between baseline intake of fruits and vegetables and the risk of hypertension in a large cohort of middle-aged and older women.

Participants included in the study are 28,082 US female health professionals aged ≥39 years, free of cardiovascular disease, cancer, and hypertension at baseline. 

According to the dietary information collected using a validated FFQ, 13,633 women who developed incident hypertension occurred during 12.9 years of follow-up.

However, after adjustment for potential confounders, including age, race, and total energy intake, the hazard ratio and 95% CI of hypertension was 0.97  and 0.86 comparing women who consumed 2-<4, 4-<6, 6-<8, and ≥8 servings/day of total fruits and vegetables with those consuming <2 servings/day, even after additionally adjusting for lifestyle factors.

Furthermore, in the analysis of individual fruits and vegetables separately, researchers found that higher intake of all fruits but not all vegetables remained significantly associated with reduced risk of hypertension after adjustment for lifestyle and dietary factors. 

Based on the findings, researchers said, "Higher intake of fruits and vegetables, as part of a healthy dietary pattern, may only contribute a modest beneficial effect to hypertension prevention, possibly through improvement in body weight regulation".

Taken altogether, increased intake of fruits and certain vegetables may be considered functional foods for the prevention of hypertension, pending the confirmation of the larger sample size and multicenter human study.

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Author Biography
Kyle J. Norton (Scholar, Master of Nutrition, All right reserved)
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published online, including worldwide health, ezine articles, article base, health blogs, self-growth, best before it's news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
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Some articles have been used as references in medical research, such as international journal Pharma and Bioscience, ISSN 0975-6299.

Sources
(1) Fruit and vegetable intake and the risk of hypertension in middle-aged and older women by Lu Wang, MD, PhD, JoAnn E. Manson, MD, DrPH, J. Michael Gaziano, MD, MPH, Julie E. Buring, ScD, and Howard D. Sesso, ScD, MPH. (PubMed)
(2) A Tasty Fruit That is Similar to Those of Clonidine, Guanfacine and Metabolite of Methyldopa for Treatment of Hypertension, With No Side Effects by Kyle J. Norton