A high fructose diet in men increased blood pressure and led to metabolic syndrome in 25% of participants.

“that was a different study um so this was a study in adolescence okay they were like 14 or 15 year old kids they were randomized to alpine we had a big effect how much blood pressure reduction did you see in the allopurinol group the blood pressure completely normalized which was but what was the starting point oh so it was mainly done by ambulatory blood pressure but also clinic blood pressure uh it was like a five to eight i i would say five to eight millimeter drop so they didn't really have high blood pressure to begin with i mean they were high for teenagers but yeah they were all defined as having high blood pressure but if they dropped by eight millimeters right they they weren't like 160 over 90 or but they weren't even 140 right if they were how do we define a teenager's blood pressure their standards of what what is considered high i'd i'd have to go back to look exactly at what it was but that 2009 study where they were given 200 grams of fructose so a lot of fructose with and without allopurinol yes yeah there was uh five to ten there was i think it was seven millimeters of mercury systolic yeah five diastolically”