High Blood Pressure May Directly Accelerate Osteoarthritis
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Researchers from the National University of Chunam in South Korea have come up with a possible mechanism linking high blood pressure, accelerated arthritis damage and increased risk of skeleton arthritis, with findings that high pressure may be one of the factors affecting the degradation of osteoporosis as well as age and mechanical factors.
A team of Korean researchers has for the first time identified the mechanism by which high blood pressure exacerbates degenerative arthritis and published their findings in the international journal *Science*. They suggest that brain hormones that raise blood pressure act as a "link" that accelerates the destruction of joint cartilage. On the 2nd, a joint research team led by Professor Ryu Je-hwang of Chonnam National University and Professor Je…
High Blood Pressure May Directly Accelerate Osteoarthritis
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Cho Seung-han = Hypertension and osteoarthritis, representative aging diseases, are not unrelated, and blood pressure signals throughout the body directly accelerate the destruction of joint cartilage...
Hypertension may play an important role in the development and aggravation of arthrosis, not only by its effects on the heart and blood vessels.
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