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Tests For High Blood Pressure
The one test that is performed to determine blood pressure readings is simply measuring blood pressure using either an electronic system or a cuff, column of mercury, and a stethoscope. The test is noninvasive, and there is nothing painful about it. The optimal reading for an adult under the age of 55 is 120/80. Readings […]
Aprima Medical Software Meets Final Meaningful Use Criteria
Aprima Medical Software Meets Final Meaningful Use Criteria Dallas, TX (Vocus) July 14, 2010 Aprima Medical Software, a leading provider of electronic health record (EHR), practice management (PM) and revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions for medical practices, announced that functionality already built into Aprima 2011 meets the final Meaningful Use criteria announced yesterday by the […]
Exercise For Pulmonary Hypertension
When blood pressure increases in the pulmonary artery, pulmonary vein, or pulmonary capillaries, it is termed pulmonary hypertension. Hypertension or high blood pressure is a medical body condition when the pressure of the blood is always high. The main symptoms of pulmonary hypertension are shortness of breath, dizziness, fainting, fatigue and cough. Angina pectoris, peripheral […]
Interactive Breathing Device Found Effective in Lowering High Systolic Blood Pressure
Montreal, Quebec (PRWEB) April 7, 2005 Frost & Sullivan has awarded its 2005 Hypertension Treatment Technology Innovation of the Year Award to InterCure, Inc. for its pioneering Interactive Respiratory-Pacing technology, and in particular for its device RESPeRATE To Lower Blood Pressure ® – the only FDA-cleared non-drug medical device clinically proven to lower high blood […]
Hospital Dentistry Using General Anesthesia
This tape demonstrates procedures for performing dental work on a completely uncooperative, mentally retarded patient, using general anesthesia, in a hospital. Orig. air date: DEC 21 79
Three Common Causes of Resistant Hypertension
Resistant hypertension is medically defined as high BP that is resistant to conventional medical therapy. According to some perspectives it affects roughly between 1 to 13 percent of all hypertension sufferers. Despite intake of three or more anti hypertensive drugs blood pressure remains elevated to 140/90mmHg for individuals under the age of 60 and 160/90mmHg […]
High Blood Pressure Acupuncture – Treating Hypertension Non-Traditionally
An alternate method to treat the serious cardiovascular condition is the high blood pressure acupuncture. Actually, the acupuncture is the most common form of complimentary health care treatment used to reduce high blood pressure. This type of health care is a conventional Western form of treatment that has been proven to be very successful. In […]
Treatment of Hypertension by Acupuncture
Traditional Chinese Medicine has a plenty of methods to treat hypertension; acupuncture is one of them.The practice of hypertension treatment by acupuncture can be generally divided into two types: one is to treat the symptom of high blood pressure; and the other, to treat the patient as a whole. To treat the symptom of high […]
How Herbs For Diabetes Help To Reduce Your Blood Sugar
Some herbs for diabetes can effectively improve this common disease together with drug medication. Treating diabetes with natural herbs can be quite complicated because more than one healing aspect are involved. Therefore, you need to take a few types of herbs for diabetes and Ganoderma Lucidum is one of them. Diabetes happens when blood sugar […]
Hypertension Medications – Finding the Best Agent to Lowering Blood Pressure
Despite constant attempts to utilize alternate means of treating the condition often referred to as the “silent killer,” hypertension medications proves to be the most common treatment. Medical professionals generally prescribe a variety of medications to treat patients that suffer with high blood pressure. In most cases, these medications are effective and they prove to […]
Curing Hypertension Through Surgical Operation
The hope of curing hypertension through surgical operation is increasing as the first attempt to reduce and permanently cure a persistently elevated blood pressure was made in Britain recently. All attempts before now seemed to only offer a palliative rather than curative hope for the hypertensive patient. Recently however, a renal surgery was carried out […]
Diabetes And Blood Pressure
Diabetics get a raw deal on blood pressure treatments. New research shows that diabetics with high BP have only a fifty percent chance that their doctors will change their medications when they need to or will give them other related treatment Diabetic patients have a higher risk for heart attack, stroke and can develop kidney […]