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 […]
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Diastolic High Blood Pressure – Is It A Signal Of Worse Things To Come?
Diastolic High Blood Pressure – Is It A Signal Of Worse Things To Come? If you’ve been diagnosed with diastolic high blood pressure then you already know that you’re diastolic blood pressure reading is greater than the normal 80 mm. If it is above 80mm but no greater than 100 mm you are pre-hypertensive and […]
Blood Pressure and Anxiety
High blood pressure is a condition where the pressure of your blood is higher than it should be. The force that the blood exerts on the blood vessels should be kept at certain levels otherwise it can become one dangerous health problem. A typical blood pressure reading should be less than 120/80mmHg. Anything reading above […]
Hypertension (High Blood Pressure) Treatment Options
Hypertension is typically treated by making changes in your lifestyle, and with drug therapy. Lifestyle Changes to Treat Hypertension Lifestyle changes include eating a healthy diet (such as the DASH diet, which includes lowering sodium but including daily servings of fruits, vegetables, and whole grain foods), stopping smoking, losing weight, and getting enough exercise, especially […]
Types of Hypertension Warning Signs
Hypertension is a synonym for high blood pressure. The condition occurs when the blood pumped by the heart is pushed too hard against the blood vessel walls. The extra force eventually causes the heart to work harder, often leading to damage of the bodily organs. Hypertension can cause illness such as heart attack, stroke, aneurysm, […]
Hypertension Pathophysiology – Understanding the Mechanisms of High Blood Pressure Formation
Hypertension is a systemic disease. This means that high blood pressure affects many organs and systems in the body and?not just the cardiovascular system. Usually function follows form and as such, when ever there is an abnormal biochemical or biophysical derangement, the physiology of the body changes from normal to diseased condition. Pathophysiology is the […]
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 […]
What is Low Blood Pressure? – Treatment Advice
What is low blood pressure? BP in simple terms is the force that the heart exacts as it pushes blood round the vessels of the body. BP is generated by the strength of the heart’s pumping action and is partly caused by the resistance of the blood vessels to the flow of blood around the […]
Alternative Natural Remedies For Hypertension
Having hypertension is one indication that you are living an unhealthy lifestyle, and it is probably about time that you made some lifestyle changes in order to make sure that you live a much healthier and happier life. Hypertension or high blood pressure is one of the most common health problems that is affecting people […]
Need to Lower Your Blood Pressure Fast Before Your Next Employment Physical?
Do you need to lower your blood pressure fast? There are all kinds of reasons why people want to get to a normal blood pressure reading quickly. Often times it really doesn’t have anything to do about their concern with health but rather about how a high blood pressure reading will affect some other part […]
Alcohol and High Blood Pressure – Fact or Fiction?
Alcohol and High Blood Pressure – wow, this is a good one (he says putting down his pint – only joking). Consuming Alcohol and High Blood Pressure as an issue is a real conundrum. One the one had, the odd wee drink now and then (he says picking his pint glass up again) is actually […]
Lowering High Blood Pressure – The Natural Solution
Lowering high blood pressure may be easier than you think. However, before I go into any detail let me run a few things by you to put the situation into perspective. The extent of the problem Roughly, over the last 80 years, death by heart disease has increased from less than 1% to 50%. It […]
Hypertension Induced Pregnancy
Hypertension is defined as the increase in pressure or the force of flow of blood in the blood vessels above a limit that is arbitrarily considered to be normal to the body. The interplay between the heart and the numerous blood vessels (arteries and veins) in the body could be likened to that of an […]