Hope over high blood pressure jab

Hey, lookie! It's another vaccine.

"A four-monthly jab may one day replace the need to regularly take pills to control blood pressure, scientists say.

A team from the Swiss biotechnology firm Cytos found the vaccine against a hormone in the blood significantly cut blood pressure, the Lancet reported.

The jab was tested on 72 patients with high blood pressure and it was found to work without serious side-effects."

Yet.

"The jabs were given at the start, and after four weeks and 12 weeks - enough to give a patient four-month resistance.

Neither dose significantly lowered blood pressure at night."

Guess when the hypertension sees the light of day it gets scared. But at night, the story is different.

Sorta like vampires.

But it still boils down to this, as it always does:

"'Looking after your heart through regular exercise, cutting down on salt, and only drinking in moderation remain the best ways in which we can prevent high blood pressure.'"

That would be fitness, folks.

No hype, no hope, no hypodermics.