Although it isn’t really common, teenagers can also suffer from hypertension. Most often teens develop the disease because they are overweight. But it can also occur in teens for other reasons, like smoking or sedentary life. Additionally, teens can have underlying medical problems that are the cause of such abnormal readings. What is considered “normal” […]
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How to Beat Hypertension With Proper Diet
So you went to the doctor and he found your blood pressure high (above 139/89). The doctor ordered tests and he has now told you that you officially have high blood pressure. There isn’t much doubt that he is going to tell you to go on a low-salt diet, get more exercise, and lose some […]
Your Alternative Treatment for Hypertension
The thought of having to take medications is harder than the thought of having hypertension. Most Americans do agree that they find it stressful to memorize and routinize dosages and prescriptions. Alternative treatment for hypertension is found out to be less demanding, though other people find some treatment to be too exotic. Preparation does not […]
Diastolic High Blood Pressure Taken Seriously
For blood pressure patients who wonder what those numbers mean when getting BPs, here is an explanation. Two figures are observed when taking blood pressures (e.g. 140/90). 140 stands for systolic pressure, 90 is the diastolic pressure. A normal systolic pressure should not exceed 140, and a normal diastolic pressure is no more than 90. […]
Natural Treatments for Hypertension
High blood pressure affects about one out of every four Americans. If it was a contagious disease, that rate would be considered an epidemic. High blood pressure is a serious condition that gives us no warning symptoms. People can have high hypertension for years, even decades, and not know that they have it. Often hypertension […]
The Causes of High Blood Pressure
Medical science cannot provide us with one definitive cause of elevated blood pressure. About 95% of people who have been diagnosed with the disease do not know exactly what caused their blood pressure to be high. There are several medical conditions that can sometimes cause this serious disease, such as kidney abnormality, birth defects, and […]
Pregnancy and High Blood Pressure
Just because a woman has high blood pressure during her pregnancy doesn’t mean that the pregnancy will not proceed as normal and that there won’t be a healthy baby delivered. But the truth is that when a woman’s blood pressure is high during her pregnancy, it can be dangerous for both the mother and the […]
Headache and Hypertension- Any Relevance?
There has been an age-old debate as to whether headache is closely related to hypertension. It is a medical truth that headache is one of the symptoms of high blood pressure. But hypertension, to be noted, has no clear symptoms and more often than not occur without signs. It is a silent killer. The question […]
Is There a Cure for Hypertension?
Truthfully, there is no cure for hypertension. High blood pressure, or hypertension, can be treated. It can be controlled, but it cannot be “cured.” First, you need to understand exactly what it is and what a blood pressure reading means. Blood doesn’t flow steadily through the veins as you might expect. Blood flow is not […]
Identifying Causes of Secondary Hypertension
Hypertension is the medical term for high blood pressure. The two types of hypertension are simply referred to as primary and secondary. The main difference between the two is the cause. Basically, when the incidence of hypertension has no known medical cause it is diagnosed as primary hypertension as against secondary hypertension caused by another […]
Alternative Medicine for Hypertension
You can almost rest assured that if medical science has treatments for any human problem, there will also be alternative medicine choices. People have suffered with all of the same maladies over the centuries that we suffer from today. They didn’t have a handy corner pharmacy, so they went to nature and their own inventiveness […]
ACE Inhibitors For Hypertension
Another form of anti-hypertensive agent is ACE inhibitors. It gets its game from the fact that it inhibits the formation of angiotensin converting enzyme an important component in the body that is helpful in forming angiotensin II. Angiotensin II is responsible in restricting or limiting the blood vessel muscles to contract during the pumping of […]
High Blood Pressure or Low Blood Pressure?
The optimum reading for adults who are under the age of 55 is 120/80. (120 is the systolic reading, and 80 is the diastolic reading.) That is OPTIMAL, or average. That doesn’t mean that any deviation from those numbers is not all right. The range of satisfactory readings for adults is between 120-140 systolic and […]