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Music Intensifies Effects Of Anti-Hypertensive Medication

posted by mrpg on Wednesday April 18 2018, @04:56PM   
from the do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-si dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Research shows anti-hypertensive drugs improve heart rate more in patients who listen to music after taking medication. Among musical genres, classical music is the one with greatest efficiency at reducing arterial pressure; authors of the study speculate whether music acts on the patients' parasympathetic system, increasing their capability of absorbing medication.

In addition to remembering to take the medication prescribed by their cardiologists at the right times and going to the trouble of making healthy lifestyle changes, patients with high blood pressure (hypertension) can include a pleasing beneficial activity in routine treatment of the disease thanks to the discovery that listening to music significantly enhances the effect of anti-hypertensive drugs.

[...] "We've observed classical music activating the parasympathetic nervous system and reducing sympathetic activity," said the principal investigator of the FAPESP-funded project. The sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems constitute the autonomic nervous system, which maintains homeostasis. The sympathetic nervous system accelerates heart rate, constricts blood vessels and raises blood pressure. The parasympathetic nervous system controls the body at rest, slowing the heart, lowering blood pressure, and stabilizing blood sugar and adrenaline.

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Original Submission

• So who gets to pick the music? So who gets to pick the music? (Score: 3, Funny) by EvilSS on Wednesday April 18 2018, @10:23PM (1 child)

  by EvilSS (1456) on Wednesday April 18 2018, @10:23PM (#668744)

  "Thank you for partaking in our study. Today you will listen to music for on hour after taking your blood pressure medicine, and our staff will measure your blood pressure every 5 minutes. Groups are broken up into a control group with no music, and others who will listen to various artists and genres. Everyone comfortable? Great! Take your meds and we will get a baseline and begin.
  
  Let's see, your group's music selection is... ah..... Rammstein!"

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• I listen to music as I wait to fall asleep (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday April 19 2018, @12:59AM

  by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday April 19 2018, @12:59AM (#668781) Homepage Journal

  Apocalyptica is a personal favorite for that time of my night.

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