According to Australian researchers, consuming two drinks daily could cause a woman’s blood pressure to rise high enough to increase her susceptibility for developing hypertension.
Previously conducted studies have shown that consuming alcohol can raise a man’s blood pressure, however study results for women have always shown mixed results. In a recently conducted study, researchers found that when women consumed 14 to 21 standard servings of red wine weekly, their results showed higher blood pressure versus when they consumed less alcohol or consumed non alcoholic wine.
“If (women) are not drinking within national guidelines when drinking [no more than seven drinks in a week and three on any day] they should cut down, switch to nonalcoholic drinks after reaching this level. It is worth paying attention to the long-term effects of higher blood pressure levels because hypertension is the most common cause of heart disease,”
stated Dr. Barbara J. Turner, director of the Research to Advance Community Health (ReACH) Center at the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, as quoted by the Duluth Tribune News.
For the study, a team of researchers at the University of Western Australia recruited 24 healthy women as a means to test for the effects of varying amounts of alcohol on 24-hour blood pressure. The women ranged in age from 24 to 49, and the majority of the sample of women were wine drinkers. Researchers measured the participant’s’ normal blood pressure before the start of the study. The women were then divided into two groups based on their reports of their typical level of drinking; one group for higher-level drinkers and the second for lower-level drinkers.
During the study the women went through three month-long trials. In the first month, the women had been instructed to consume a higher volume of Shiraz Cabernet wine nightly for a week, which equates to about 6 ounces or two glasses nightly for the lower-level drinkers, and 10 ounces or three glasses nightly for the higher-level drinkers. In the second month, the participants consumed a smaller amount of the same red wine daily, with the lower-level drinkers consuming one glass per night, four times a week and higher-level drinkers consuming one glass of wine daily every night of the week.
In the last four-week period of the study, the women consumed the same amount of drinks as they did during the higher-volume month, however they drank dealcoholized red wine for this period. The women did not consume any alcohol during any other period during the day.
Nurses monitored each participant’s blood pressure every 30-minutes within a 24-hour time span, at the end of each month. The participants also completed diet and physical activity logs at the end of each study period, in addition to providing blood samples in order to measure whether they were in compliance of changing their alcohol intake.
According to the study, before the study started the women had an average blood pressure reading of 110 mmHg and 69 mmHg diastolic blood pressure. After the higher-volume phase, the participants systolic blood pressure increased by about 2 mmHG and their diastolic readings were 1.2 mmHg higher after the dealcoholized wine period. However, blood pressure readings were in close range during the lower-volume red wine month and the dealcoholized red wine month. According to reports, blood pressure differences were more noticeable during the day versus when the participants were sleeping.
Researchers concluded that consuming two to three glasses of red wine daily does increase the blood pressure of women who are healthy and pre-menopausal, this effect is similar to that which had been previously found in men.
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