San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) March 29, 2006 In a first-of-its-kind study of bariatric surgery, the Mayo Clinic studied patients who underwent Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass surgery. They discovered the procedure reaps significant cardiac benefits compared to patients enrolled in traditional weight-reduction programs. The study covered 197 patients who underwent Roux-en-Y surgery, the most common weight-loss procedure […]
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Hypertension and Heart Failure
We have heard that high blood pressure is bad for you, but how does this affect your heart? A look into how hypertension can change the cardiac cycle and why double bacon cheeseburgers might not be a heart-healthy snack. www.annalsofmedicalschool.com Video Rating: 0 / 5
Blood Pressure and Its Implications on Exercise
Definition of Blood Pressure. Blood Pressure (BP) is the pressure exerted on blood vessel walls by circulating blood. What is the difference between Systolic and Diastolic blood pressure? Systolic blood pressure is the pressure within the arteries when the heart contracts increasing blood flow through the arteries and therefore in turn the pressure. Diastolic pressure […]
Low Blood Pressure Symptoms
Controlling high blood pressure reduces the risk for heart attacks and death from other cardiovascular disease. Extreme low blood pressure, however, can be hazardous–even deadly. Scientists add that although higher death rates among those with low blood pressure may be due to other causes, cardiac deaths were particularly high in untreated patients with low diastolic […]
Aneroid Blood Pressure Monitor: Why and How Should You Use One?
High blood pressure is a chronic disorder which has to be kept under control to ensure that the ensuing ailments stay at bay. The class of drug and the dosage used to control the condition will often depend on the patient’s specific medical needs. Most experts suggest that the only way to rein in the […]
Cardiac conduction system and its relationship with ECG – Anatomy & Physiology Online
The heart’s conductions system controls the generation and propagation of electric signals or action potentials causing the hearts muscles to contract and the heart to pump blood. Taken from Cardiovascular System. One of 19 modules with narrated animations, illustrations, pronunciation guides, dissection slides, clinical text covering the Heart, Cardiac Muscle, Conduction System, Cardiac Cycle,Cardiac Output, […]
Natural Hypertension Remedies – 7 Tips
Tips to Naturally Lower High Blood Pressure Should you be worried about high blood pressure (also called high blood pressure)? Consider the following facts about the “silent assassin” hypertension. 73 million Americans have high blood pressure. That means that about one in three adults have this deadly disease. And 1 in 4 are not aware […]
A Cayenne Pepper Diet Could Be Good For Your Heart – Official
Recent medical research has disclosed a fact of which herbalists have long been aware: that the ingredient in chilli peppers that makes them taste hot can reduce your blood pressure. Actually, the research was on genetically hypertensive rats but herbalists as well as the thousands of loyal users know that chilli pepper compounds, also known […]
Cardiovascular Hypertension
Hypertension is not just one illness but a syndrome with multiple brings about. In most situations, the trigger remains unfamiliar, and also the instances are lumped collectively under the term essential hypertension. However, mechanisms are continuously becoming found out that explain hypertension in new subsets of the formerly monolithic category of important hypertension, and the […]
Heart Physiology (Cardiac pressure-time curve: part 2/6)
Pressure-Time Curve of heart
Suzy Cohen discusses CoQ10 versus Ubiquinol. The winner is?
Suzy Cohen, America’s Most Trusted Pharmacist. Why statin cholesterol drugs, estrogen-containing drugs, diabetics medications, blood pressure pills and other prescribed medicine STEAL your CoQ10 and Ubiquinol. How that can cause leg cramps, muscle aches, cardiac arrhythmias, fatigue, shortness of breath and many other problems. Video Rating: 4 / 5
Blood Pressure Explained
Increasingly, people are turning to home blood pressure monitors to keep an eye on their blood pressure but how many understand what blood pressure actually means? This article is a simple overview of blood pressure and its many facets and will hopefully help you to understand, once and for all, what is “Blood Pressure”. It […]
Cardiac Cycle: Pressure and Volume
This video explores the relationship between pressure and volume in the left ventricle during 1 cardiac cycle. It answers the question, how can such a small pump provide all the power needed to push blood through all of the vessels of the body? Oh, what a great question! It gets my heart pumping fast just […]