In men, hypertension is present in

• 15 percent of men with a body mass index (BMI) of less than 25 (normal weight),
• 22 percent of men with a body mass index (BMI) of 25-27, and
• 27 percent of men with a BMI of 27-30.

In women, hypertension is present in

• 15 percent of women with a BMI of less than 25,
• 28 percent of women with a BMI of 25-27, and
• 33 percent of women with a BMI of 27-30.

Rabbits given the antihypertensive drug hydralazine ate less, weighed less, and had a lower percent bodyfat according to a study from researchers at the University of North Texas Health in Fort Worth.

HYPERTENSION was 8.5 times as prevalent in overweight adolescents as in their lean peers according to a recent study.

In his interview, William Wilson, M.D., discussed a condition he has named Hypothalamic Pituitary Dysfunction, or HPD for short. In this article he provides an outline for diagnosis, treatment and examples of patients he has treated.

Losing 5 pounds decreases diastolic pressure by 7 mmHg and losing 10 pounds reduced it by 11.6 mmHg according to a study by McCarron and Reusser (1996).

“Clinicians are likely to encounter morbidity more frequently among their patients with elevated BMI, even those patients in the overweight category [with a body mass index greater than 25],” concludes a recent study by researchers from Tufts University, Harvard School of Public Health, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Systolic blood pressure is 9 mm Hg higher in obese men than in normal-weight men according to an analysis of 1029 men participating in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Baltimore.

“Much of the worry about blood pressure—especially the ‘lower is better’—is false,” says mathematics and statistics professor Sidney S. Port from the University of California, Los Angeles. Prof. Port is the lead author of an excellent, ground-breaking, landmark, paradigm-shifting paper about the risks associated with systolic blood pressure that was published The Lancet in 2000.

“Much of the worry about blood pressure—especially the ?lower is better’—is false,” says mathematics and statistics professor Sidney S. Port from the University of California, Los Angeles. Prof. Port is the lead author of an excellent, ground-breaking, landmark, paradigm-shifting paper about the risks associated with systolic blood pressure. The paper reveals that the risk of death associated with systolic blood pressure is “greatly overestimated… for more than 70 percent of the population”.

Artemis P. Simopoulos, M.D. is one of the world’s leading experts on the effects of essential fatty acids on health and disease and is the author of “The Omega Diet”.