Hair salons contribute to lower blood pressure

Researchers from the Institute revealed Cedars - Sinai Heart in New York, United States, there is a role that health useful for barber, which can contribute to the achievement in reducing the amount of blood pressure in people with high, and thus improve health status and prevent the degradation of millions of patients. And most importantly save the lives of hundreds each year

 The feasibility study examined the treatment of "follow-up health programs in the hair salons", a program which is spreading in the United States, particularly since the eighties of the last century, when it hosted the hair salons in the United States, "the medical follow-up" of some of the common diseases. The population of those salons that those programs are available today, more than 18 thousand hairdresser, especially those that receive mostly U.S. clients with assets in Africa.



The newspaper "Middle East" that the results of the study will be published in the February 2011 issue of the Journal "Archives of Internal Medicine" showed that the services of this type of hair salons was one of the reasons preventing more than 800 episodes of stroke, heart, and more than 550 the case of stroke, seizures, and more than 900 deaths.

 And Dr. Ronald Victor, MD, internal medicine specialist treating high blood pressure and the Principal Investigator of the study, a comparative study of science, with a dye disciplined in follow-up and analysis, including group were selected randomly from among those with high blood pressure, who entered the follow-up program the amount of blood pressure Upon visiting the salon.



This program includes education of the barber how to measure blood pressure, and recording the results of the readings, and then see the doctor who follow the results of the high. Programs is a statistical survey notes that the medical community as having positive effects in an effort to treat high blood pressure goers hair salons that.

 Commented Dr. Victor said: "What you tell us the results of this study is that success in the general work of intensive lowering of blood pressure, can rise and strength when they are improving the capabilities of hairdressers and make them complementary to the workers in the medical community in the medical efforts that aim to control the uncontrollable proliferation of cases of non-discipline blood pressure in people with him, and that disease is the silent killer "