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As a health care provider I would like to comment and clarify some of the points mentioned in this thread about high blood pressure and cholesterol and the medications used to control them: 1) It IS dangerous to run continuously with very high blood pressure; if your resting pressure is very high it will be [...]

My girlfriend Sweetie is saner than I am and so I agreed with her that I should get a full physical exam, with special attention paid to factors that might make me keel over dead in the middle of a long run. So, having done that, what’s up? My cholesterol is hanging in there, though [...]

In 1976, 413 high school runners in Finland competed in a 2000-meter race. At the time of the race and in a follow-up study twenty-five years later, the faster runners had much lower blood pressures than the slower ones (International Journal of Sports Medicine, July-August 2005.) The researchers wanted to know whether a maximal endurance [...]

Overview If you have ever trained for a marathon, triathlon or other type of endurance event, you might have noticed your blood pressure was lower during training. In fact, the blood-pressure-lowering effects of aerobic exercise have been well-documented. The research into the blood pressure of professional athletes is more complex. However, some of the studies [...]