Metabolic Syndrome: Information for Professionals What is the metabolic syndrome? The metabolic syndrome is characterized by a group of metabolic risk factors in one person. They include: Central obesity (excessive fat tissue in and around the abdomen) Atherogenic dyslipidemia (blood fat disorders — mainly high triglycerides and low HDL cholesterol — that foster plaque buildups […]
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Ayurvedic Treatment Saves 3 Time Stroke Patient (Part 4)
Contributed by: (www.india-herbs.com) What is a stroke? A stroke is serious – just like a heart attack. A stroke is sometimes called a “brain attack.” Most often, stroke occurs when blood flow to the brain stops because it is blocked by a clot. The brain cells in the immediate area begin to die because they […]
Primary Pulmonary Hypertension and the Diet Pill Connection
PPH (Primary Pulmonary Hypertension) is unfortunately reaching epidemic proportions in this country. A once rare problem is becoming much more prevalent. (Higher pulmonary artery blood pressure causes the heart to work a lot harder to pump sufficient quantities of blood into the lungs. The heart becomes weaker and weaker over time and eventually may fail.) […]
Ringing Ears and Blood Pressure – What’s the Relationship?
Can you hear a pulsating sound in your ears? It might be pulsating tinnitus. Tinnitus is usually characterized as a ringing sound in your ears; buzzing, hissing or a pulsating sound. When you have the pulsating tinnitus type, your ringing ears blood pressure flow is loud enough to imitate a steady pulsating buzz. Measuring tinnitus […]
Lowering High Blood Pressure With Food
High blood pressure is one of the highest non-communicable diseases in the world today. High blood pressure is also known as hypertension. Showing you how you can combat hypertension with foods is the purpose of this article. Potassium is an important mineral in regulating blood pressure. It has been noted to have significant blood pressure […]
Pulmonary Hypertension
What is pulmonary hypertension? A rare disease, pulmonary hypertension is an elevated blood pressure in the lung vasculature. High pressure is exerted on the walls of the pulmonary artery, pulmonary vein and pulmonary capillaries that make up the pulmonary vasculature. When you ever feel any signs of shortness of breath, dizziness, fainting or other symptoms […]
Natural Remedies and Control of Hypertension
Natural remedies for controlling hypertension rely on the patient’s ability to monitor his own blood pressure so that the individual is well informed about the rise or fall of the readings. Indeed a person whose blood pressure is high ought to keep a journal of his daily readings. The Sphygmomanometer aka “sphyg” is the common […]