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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 19 2018, @03:55AM (1 child)
Only if the car is American. Try European or Japanese and the sliding will go away for the most part.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday April 19 2018, @02:15PM
Well, yeah, most of us are aware of the differences between front, rear, or all-wheel drives. And, when you drive like a madman, they can all come unglued from the road. Who makes cars with engines in the rear? Not Americans, LOL!!