{"id":35532,"date":"2017-03-22T13:42:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T20:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/web-based-counseling-lowers-blood-pressure-as-much-as-meds-study"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:08:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:08:05","slug":"web-based-counseling-lowers-blood-pressure-as-much-as-meds-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/web-based-counseling-lowers-blood-pressure-as-much-as-meds-study","title":{"rendered":"Web-based counseling lowers blood pressure as much as meds: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/web-based-counseling-lowers-blood-pressure-as-much-as-meds-study.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>People who received regular lifestyle counseling online were able to lower their blood pressure as much as a medication would, researchers said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Their study involved 264 people with <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/high+blood+pressure\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">high blood pressure<\/a> and an average age of 58.<\/p>\n<p>The subjects\u2019 average blood pressure began at around 140\/90 mmHg, meaning they had what is clinically known as stage 1 hypertension.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2017-03-web-based-lowers-blood-pressure-meds.html#jCp\">https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2017&#45;03-web-based-lowers-...s.html#jCp<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People who received regular lifestyle counseling online were able to lower their blood pressure as much as a medication would, researchers said Saturday. Their study involved 264 people with high blood pressure and an average age of 58. The subjects\u2019 average blood pressure began at around 140\/90 mmHg, meaning they had what is clinically known [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":369,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/369"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58335,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35532\/revisions\/58335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}