Raising dogs helps to reduce children's blood pressure

Raising dogs helps to reduce children's blood pressure
Reporter Zheng XiaoChun

News from Tel Aviv on April 28 a dose of special Na's epidemic disease research institutes and scientists who gives up the medical centre of Palestine in Israel discover, it contributes to reducing children's blood pressure to raise dogs.
230 students to grade 3 of grade 1 of primary school in all have participated in this to study. Studying divides into two stages. The first stage, find out the family from parents and raise dogs through questionnaire investigation, the relation between child and dog, for instance whether to often play, feed dogs with the dog or not, inquire the child's medical history, measure the child's height and weight. The second stage, measure blood pressure of children in different condition. They let the child participating in the experiment sit quietly for 5 minutes first, avoid any sport, then measure blood pressure; Later, and then let children measure blood pressure under the atmosphere that obviously felt pressure. The result reveals, blood pressure of the child who often plays with the dog, 4.5 millimetres of low mercury columns on average of blood pressure not raising the dog child more than the family, it means, raising dogs has influence on reducing children's blood pressure.

Is the rice responsible for this research dismissed from? Barasch says, hypertension is to perplex one of people's common diseases, it not merely can cause cardiovascular vessel disease, will also make people die when being serious. Though suffers from 9 -year-old children at 6 years old there is little comparison of hypertension, if Childhood blood pressure is a bit high, symptom will often be more serious after growing up. Research reveals, children and dog will feel relaxed and happy while playing, no matter they go to the park with dog, and dog play in courtyard, will increase amount of exercise, than consume, more helpful to health several hour in front of computer or TV this, this too raises one of the reasons why dogs can regulate children's blood pressure. Researchers claim, this research results, in order to prevent hypertension from opening up a simple and convenient, effective new route early.




Raising dogs helps to reduce children's blood pressure