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

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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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday April 19 2018, @12:22AM (2 children)

    by frojack (1554) on Thursday April 19 2018, @12:22AM (#668770) Journal

    Exactly my thoughts.
    Music works by itself.

    I doubt it has any effect on medicine uptake beyond what a simple dosage adjustment would do.

    Now Grapefruit, [mayoclinic.org] that's different. It can either enhance or depress medicine uptake and its pretty unpredictable which affect it will have on any given patient at any give time.

    Combining the grapefruit, medicine and music might be totally suicidal.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 19 2018, @04:00AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 19 2018, @04:00AM (#668841)

    So now we know how Prince died. He had been taking medicines, had been listening to music (basically his whole life) and then somebody offered him grapefruit. Damn.

  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday April 19 2018, @04:27AM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Thursday April 19 2018, @04:27AM (#668848) Journal

    Now Grapefruit, that's different. It can either enhance or depress medicine uptake and its pretty unpredictable which affect it will have on any given patient at any give time.

    But the question remains: Does grapefruit affect the effect of music? :-)

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