Contributed by: filbert Tuesday, August 16 2005 @ 09:56 AM CST
The study, which looked at the medical records of 5,123 women — ages 34 to 77 — for up to eight years, found that those who took 500 milligrams or more of acetaminophen daily were twice as likely to develop high blood pressure as women who did not take the drug.
From the same article, ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin) also raises blood pressure:
Older women, ages 51 to 77, who took an average daily dose of more than 400 milligrams of ibuprofen a day were 78% more likely to develop high blood pressure than older women who did not take the drug. And younger women, ages 34 to 53, who took those daily doses were 60% more likely to develop high blood pressure, according to the study published in today’s issue of Hypertension.
I don’t know if the study controlled for recent marriage of the women, which incontrovertably raises blood pressure in The Better Half. (grin, duck, run)