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Arogyavardhini vati, a traditionally used Ayurvedic medicine may be a useful therapy for hypercholesterolemia through reducing oxidative stress (decreasing MDA and increasing GSH) and lipid levels.
Current literature suggests that food therapy is effective in blood pressure control and can be incorporated into blood pressure self-management in the Chinese population.
At the same time of reasonable blood pressure-lowering treatment,use traditional Chinese medicine to enhance curative effect,reduce adverse reactions and improve the patients' quality of life.
Therefore, lifestyle modifications with antihypertensive drug therapy are the best treatments to reduce cardiovascular risk and attain goal blood pressure values for patients with hypertension.
Low sodium high potassium salt-substitute is effective in lowering both systolic and diastolic blood pressure and offers a simple, low-cost approach for hypertension control among Tibetans in China.
Combination treatment with azilsartan/chlorthalidone is effective for reducing blood pressure.
This study showed that integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine treatment can achieve better results in controlling blood pressure as well as other cardiovascular risk factors.
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H T Ong, Cheah Js 
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The clinician should concentrate on seeking this lower target blood pressure rather than be excessively concerned about which is the best antihypertensive agent.
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Bhokardankar P, Rathi B, Kukade S, Gupta R, Bhawane A 
15 Jul 2021
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Moreover, we found that there are logical confirmations of the utilization of some Ayurvedic herbal plants for the treatment of high BP.
Among hypertensive patients (n=15), 60% (9 of 15) had either a >10 mm Hg drop in systolic blood pressure (n=4) or required a reduction in anti-hypertensive medications due to persistent systolic blood pressure This pilot study suggests that short term Ayurvedic therapy improves arterial stiffness and many cardiometabolic risk factors in patients with coronary artery disease.

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