If you are combating hypertension do not be discouraged. Did you realize that as many as seventy two million people in the U.S. 20 and older have hypertension? Twenty eight percent of these don’t even know they have it. Some people don’t concern yourself about their blood pressure until they become old. While this might […]
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Eat Your Way to Reduced Hypertension
Eating our way to reduced hypertension is not a far fetched idea; after all, we are what we eat. Just as there are foods, such as salt, that can make our blood pressure soar there are also foods that have the opposite effect. The problem is our modern diet which is high in saturated fat […]
Hypertension, An Alternative Approach
For many years high blood pressure has been defined based upon actuarial tables prepared by life insurance companies. By that definition, blood pressure of 140/90 is borderline hypertension in a person 40 years of age. The suppressed fact is that blood pressure should rise by 5 points for every decade of life. Therefore, 145/95 is […]
Relief For Stress – High Blood Pressure Or Diabetes
There is a misconception that people who are stressed out only lose weight. Even though people do lose weight when stressed out,?the opposite is also true. Some people gain weight?when they are feeling stressed. In this article we will talk about relief for stress of High Blood Pressure?and Diabetes, and how you can control or […]
Effects of High Blood Pressure
Over time, the effects of high blood pressure (also known as hypertension) can include a heart attack, kidney failure, and congestive heart failure. The body structures most vulnerable to high blood pressure include the blood vessels, heart, brain, and kidneys. For videos and more check out www.emedtv.com Video Rating: 5 / 5
Hypertension and the Good News For Fast Food Lovers
Some of the UK’s leading fast food chains have committed to lowering levels of salt and fat within their meals. McDonalds, Burger King, KFC, Subway, Nando’s and Wimpy have all promised to lower levels of saturated and trans fats as well as lowering salt levels. This is excellent news for all fast food lovers but […]
Record and Chart Your Blood Pressure with My Blood Pressure
(PRWEB) June 23, 2005 My Health Software has released version 2.0 of My Blood Pressure, award winning Windows software that makes it easy for users to track and chart their blood pressure readings. My Blood Pressure makes it simple for sufferers of high or low blood pressure to keep a record of their readings from […]
Why Is Malignant Hypertension So Serious?
Malignant hypertension is the most serious form of hypertension and is a progressive rise in the blood pressure and rapidly leads to organ failure. If not properly treated malignant hypertension is generally fatal within five years and death usually comes from kidney failure, heart failure or brain hemorrage. Fortunately this form of hypertension is rare. […]
How to Lower High Blood Pressure Using Fish Oil
High Blood pressure is defined as anything higher than 120/80 (normal). When it is high, the heart has to work harder. The higher pressure will likely damage vessels to vital organs such as the kidneys, heart and the brain. It is also known as hypertension. HypertensionSymptoms and Causes Quite often, people have no symptoms but […]
Reducing Blood Pressure is Critical
High blood pressure or hypertension as it is also known is typically called the ‘silent killer’ because so many people don’t know that they have it. It slowly creeps up on you and can damage your heart, kidneys, and brain, although you’re feeling no symptoms. Therefore reducing blood pressure is critical to your wellbeing. ? […]
High Blood Pressure – End Organ Damage
In this article we’re going to look at one of the most serious problems facing people with severe high blood pressure, end organ damage. It isn’t the high blood pressure itself that will ultimately kill you. It’s the damage that it does to the organs in your body that will. Chronic high blood pressure can […]
Pregnancy Hypertension – Dangerous and Relatively Unknown
Pregnancy hypertension is called preeclampsia or toxemia. It is common in women during a first pregnancy and in young women. It is common in women with multiple fetuses, women who have a history of pregnancy hypertension, chronic hypertension and preexisting diabetes. Pregnancy hypertension includes three characteristics. They are protein in the urine, high blood pressure […]
Bloodpressuremedications.biz Launches Resource Site and E-Store
London, UK (PRWEB) May 16, 2008 www.Bloodpressuremedications.biz is an excellent new site to obtain information regarding blood pressure medication and one can also purchase medicine online from the site. The site is extremely helpful to customers and provides them with vital information regarding symptoms of high blood pressure, causes for high blood pressure, information on […]