Medicines meant for better life style and cure diseases are misused by people. It has resulted in non availability of life saving drugs. It is unfortunate that llife has been made meaningless by such lifestyle. We have to make them understand that lifestyle behaviour in adolescents may adversely affect blood pressure and cardiovascular risk in adulthood . The substantial differences in blood pressure found in a study between those with a healthier or less favourable lifestyle “are likely to significantly affect their risk of both ischemic heart disease and stroke in adulthood”, the investigators warn.
The researchers added that adolescence is a time of life when behaviours “tend to become entrenched”, and that “significant public health benefits may be achieved from implementation of a range of gender-appropriate lifestyle modifications within this age group of adolescents”. At that time study subjects were asked about alcohol consumption, smoking, physical activity, prescription medications (including the use of oral contraceptives), and dietary patterns, and the association between each of these factors and systolic and diastolic blood pressure was calculated.Boys had an overall systolic blood pressure 9 mmHg higher than girls not taking the Pill.Among the boys, systolic blood pressure was significantly associated with BMI, urinary sodium (as a marker of salt intake) and alcohol consumption. And even when adjusted for BMI, the link with alcohol and salt remained.The study also found that habitual physical activity was associated with lower diastolic blood pressure.Using adult blood pressure definition criteria, approximately 24 percent of the adolescents were pre-hypertensive or hypertensive; remarkably, 34 percent of the overweight and 38 percent of the obese adolescents were in these high blood pressure categories. Furthermore, use of the Pill was significantly associated with raised blood pressure in the girls; for example, the systolic blood pressure of girls taking the Pill (30 percent of the group) was 3.3 mmHg higher than non-Pill users, and grew higher with increasing BMI. This finding, said the authors, extended previous findings on the Pill in adolescence.Blood pressure in the girls was not affected by alcohol consumption. Hence we have to make the new generations the harmful effects of using drugs.
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