I believe we all know that cardiovascular disease has now become a threat to the lives and health of our residents of the major public **** health problems, data show that each year will lead to the death of 4 million people, accounting for more than 40% of the total number of deaths, ranked first! Hypertension is one of the most important risk factors for the development and death of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, nearly 50% of cardiovascular morbidity and 20% of cardiovascular disease deaths attributable to hypertension! Seeing this figure, do you feel alarmed?

So, there have been more and more people with high blood pressure, began to pay special attention to the control of blood pressure, in addition to regular medication, we have begun to pay attention to the dietary aspects of whether there is help to assist in lowering the role of blood pressure, and tea is one of the more easy to pay attention to the focus of today's tea and the relationship between the lowering of the relationship between blood pressure!

01Does tea have an antihypertensive effect?

The answer is, yes!

Whether it's black tea or green tea, it has some antihypertensive effect.

Let's start with the data:

●Khalesi's 2014 study, which systematically reviewed and analyzed papers published between 1995 and 2013 on the relationship between green tea and blood pressure, showed that drinking green tea lowered systolic blood pressure by 2.08 millimeters of mercury (mmHg) and diastolic blood pressure by 1.71 mmHg.

●Greyling's 2014 study on the relationship between black tea and blood pressure showed that regular black tea consumption reduced systolic blood pressure by 1.8 mm Hg and diastolic blood pressure by 1.3 mm Hg.

●Gang Liu's 2014 paper showed that drinking green tea could lower systolic blood pressure by 2.1 millimeters of mercury and diastolic blood pressure by 1.7 millimeters of mercury, and that drinking black tea lowered systolic blood pressure by 1.4 millimeters of mercury and diastolic blood pressure by 1.1 millimeters of mercury.

●Yi-Ching Yang et al. 2004 paper, "The Protective Effect of Habitual Tea Drinking on Hypertension," examined the relationship between tea consumption and blood pressure in 771 men and 796 women, and found that those who consumed at least 120 milliliters of medium-strength green and oolong tea per day had a 46% lower risk of hypertension than those who didn't, and that among those who drank between 120 and 599 milliliters of green and oolong tea daily, hypertension was lower than among those who didn't. Among those who drank 120 to 599 milliliters a day, the risk of hypertension was actually reduced by 65 percent.

02 analysis

There are many other studies in this category, so I won't give you a list, from these studies we found that whether it's green tea, black tea or oolong tea, as long as the long-term drinking, for the auxiliary lowering of blood pressure is a certain effect, drinking green tea and black tea to lower blood pressure is similar, it's hard to say who's better than who is a little bit stronger if you look from the data, the green tea relatively speaking, than black tea to lower blood pressure is slightly more effective than the black tea. If you look at the data, green tea, relatively speaking, is slightly higher than the effect of black tea to lower blood pressure a little bit, due to a variety of studies involving a variety of factors are different, in different studies, green tea and black tea to lower blood pressure is weaker or stronger, there are still not the same results, but the overall results of the study showed that tea consumption is still negatively correlated with increased blood pressure!

Data from experimental studies show that tea and tea extracts have an important role in relaxing smooth muscle contraction, reducing vascular inflammation, inhibiting renin activity and anti-vascular oxidative stress, and it is because of these effects that tea and its extracts have an antihypertensive effect.

For tea antihypertensive, we must have the correct understanding, that is, it reduces the blood pressure is not particularly much, it can only play an auxiliary role, if a hypertensive patient blood pressure has been very high, want to simply through the drinking of tea on the blood pressure control, is completely unrealistic! Or to accept the formal doctor's advice, scientific and reasonable medication, adjust their diet and lifestyle habits, at the same time, auxiliary drinking tea to better control blood pressure!

After all, food is food, and it is no substitute for medicine!

03Other lifestyles that lower blood pressure are just as important!

For friends with high blood pressure, it is important to eat a reasonable diet in life, and must control their salt intake, it is recommended that daily salt intake should be gradually reduced to 5 grams, and also pay attention to reduce the use of sodium-containing condiments, such as soy sauce, fish sauce and so on. To increase the intake of vegetables, fruits, low-fat dairy products, deep-sea fish, whole grains, fiber-rich ingredients, potassium-rich and mineral-rich foods.

Also pay attention to control their own weight, you can jogging, swimming and brisk walking and other sports, gradually to control their own weight down, in the process of exercise, be sure not to force the results, take your time, you can properly carry out anaerobic exercise, but remember to rush the weight, each other, it is easy to lead to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular accidents. Aerobic exercise is recommended for a minimum of 150 minutes per week, or 30 minutes per day, at least five times per week!

Note, is at least this amount of exercise, can be adjusted according to the individual physical quality of exercise!

Aerobic exercise emphasizes the need for moderate-intensity aerobic exercise, that is, in the process of exercise, can comfortably climb with other friends, but will not induce panic, palpitations, shortness of breath and other abnormal feelings, research shows that scientific aerobic exercise can make systolic blood pressure decreased by 3.84 mm Hg, diastolic blood pressure decreased by 2.58 mm Hg.

Additionally, I believe we must also know that friends with high blood pressure are not recommended to smoke, drink alcohol, these two habits would have been no good for our body, if you already have high blood pressure, have the above two habits, it is recommended that you still quit it! If the occasion really need to drink, it is recommended that the amount of alcohol, men do not exceed 25 grams, women do not exceed 15 grams, this amount is close to 75 milliliters of low-grade white wine, beer, about one.

04Summary

Tea drinking is supposed to be a very healthy habit, in our country has a long history, with the depth of the research we also found that tea drinking does have a certain effect on our blood pressure, whether it's black, green or oolong tea, if you do not yet have this habit, slowly cultivate it!