Common heart disease risk factors are age, excess body fat and high blood pressure. Find out more about common heart attack risks factors with expert tips from a certified emergency medical technician (EMT) in this free video on heart disease. Expert: Michael Herbert Bio: Michael Herbert is a certified emergency medical technician (EMT) with New […]
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2 Exercises to Help Control Hypertension
Hypertension or high blood pressure as it is also known is a condition that raises the pressure of the blood in the arteries. It is a condition that many people have. It is also been given the name as the silent killer as many people who have the condition are not even aware that they […]
Diagnosing And Treating Hypertension
Most cases of hypertension are caused by reasons that cannot be medically determined, but the risk factors are certainly no mystery, as having high blood pressure can cause stroke or myocardial infarction, heart failure and many other kinds of dangerous problems. Usually when you are going to have this diagnosed, the doctor will use different […]
The Heart Truth: Heart disease is the #1 killer of women.
The Heart Truth is that heart disease is the #1 killer of women, and most fail to make the connection between risk factors—such as high blood pressure and high cholesterol—and their personal risk of developing heart disease. But, heres the good news: women have tremendous power to prevent heart disease and live longer, healthier lives. […]
Finding a Way to Define Hypertension
Perhaps the biggest problem with high blood pressure today is that it is so widespread and so frequently talked about that a lot of people do not afford it the respect it deserves. The simple fact is high blood pressure, or hypertension, is a killer and needs to be treated as such. A lot of […]
Hypertension Emancipation – Finding the Best Remedy for High Blood Pressure
How is blood pressure measured? How does one know if he or she has hypertension? Actually, most people know the answers to both these questions. But since hypertension – or high blood pressure – is such a “silent” condition (many people don’t even know they have it), people often simply don’t care. A doctor, in […]
Understanding the Risk of Hypertension
Hypertension or High blood pressure is a “soundless killer” since it does not present any symptoms at the initial stage, thereby leaving you defenseless. Let us widen up our knowledge about this condition. The blood pressure pumping to the arteries are elevated with this medical state. The arteries are essential part of the body since […]
Vitamins – the Basics
Vitamins are micro-nutrients. They were discovered by Eijkman (1897) in Indonesia, Java, while studying a disease called beriberi common among natives whose main diet was rice. He noticed that fowl fed on polished rice, developed beri beri, but not when fed on crudely milled rice. In 1911 Funk obtained an alcoholic extract of the outer […]
How Can You Cure Your Diabetes Naturally?
A balanced diet is the key to good health. Sometimes diabetes is caused by genetic factors. Still sometimes unhealthy lifestyle is the major cause of diabetes. How Can You Cure Your Diabetes Naturally? Diabetes Care Tips | DiabetesCareTips.info
Study Finds Bariatric Surgery Lowers Cardiac Risk Factors
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 […]
Hypertension and Primary Hypertension
With up to 95% of patients no cause of elevated blood pressure can be identified. This primary or essential hypertension is multifactorial and has not yet entirely been clarified. A genetic component plays a role, different mutations are known, but it is not itself a disease that can be explained (polygenic cause). In addition, extremely […]
Blood Pressure Causes – What Makes it Go Up Or Down?
Your blood pressure does not remain static. That is, the measurement will not be the exact same thing every time you take it, no matter what. Instead, your blood pressure (BP) is affected by a huge range of things that can raise or lower it at any given time. Even standing up can change your […]
Hypertension Is a Silent Killer
Hypertension is the second leading cause of death and leading cause of physical disability and mental problems, caused by stroke. Measuring the frequency of blood pressure helps to detect hypertension timely and appropriate treatment prescribed by your doctor will help to decrease the risk caused by this disease. Hypertension usually occurs when blood vessels narrow, […]