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High blood pressure: Could gut bacteria play a role?
As it stands, because the microbiome is a relatively new field of study, the full scope of gut bacteria's role in health is still up for debate.
However, it is becoming increasingly clear that the bacteria in our gut can open new avenues in our understanding of a wide range of conditions.
Scientists have studied the role of gut bacteria in conditions as varied as obesity, Parkinson's disease, depression, and blood pressure.
This Spotlight focuses on their role in hypertension. Elevated blood pressure is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and affects almost 1 in 3 adults in the United States.
Because of this, it is vital that medical scientists unearth the various mechanisms that underpin blood pressure regulation.
One study paper puts hypertension's impact into sobering context: "Over 400 ,000 deaths in the United States are related to [hypertension] every year, more than all the Americans who died through all of World War II."
