Healthy Reads | ‘High Blood Pressure for Dummies’
Miami Herald - High blood pressure, 140/90 or higher, puts you at risk for heart disease and stroke. Losing weight, exercising and cutting back on sodium can help keep your blood pressure under control. For more in-depth advice, read High Blood Pressure for Dummies …
Happiness ‘can help cut blood pressure and obesity’
Daily Mail - Happier people have a reduced risk of various conditions, a new study shows Happy people have lower levels of a key stress hormone in their body, cutting the risk of high blood pressure, obesity and a poor immune system, new research has suggested …
Fix Your Spine, Lower Your Blood Pressure?
HealthScout - CHICAGO (Ivanhoe Newswire) — About 72 million adults in the United States are living with high blood pressure. That’s one in three people. Statistics show only 35 percent of them have it under control. Now, research shows a spinal adjustment may …
Gene’s Effects In Blood Vessels And High Blood Pressure In Older …
Medical News Today - Scientists have identified the gene that sets off a sequence of events in the blood vessels of otherwise healthy adults that can lead to high blood pressure. The disease process eventually makes conditions in vessels ripe for the creation of …
Pfizer: Adding Lipitor early to blood pressure treatment reduced heart …
Forbes - SAN FRANCISCO (Thomson Financial) - Pfizer Inc. said Wednesday a new study showed the early addition of Lipitor to effective blood pressure-lowering treatment maintained a significant 36% reduction in the relative risk of heart attacks over five …
Low Blood Pressure
WOOD - Blood pressures vary, depending on such factors as age, race, sex, and environment. On rare occasions, individuals may have medical problems that cause low blood pressure. Among such conditions are some types of heart disease, hormonal deficiencies …
Older Hypertension Patients Less Likely to Get Lifestyle Advice
MedicineNet.com - A team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill analyzed data from a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey of almost 28,500 adults with hypertension. They also found that patients who aren’t overweight or obese are less …
Survey says too much salt may expose kids to high blood pressure risk
Earthtimes - LONDON - The Consensus Action on Salt and Health has warned parents that they are exposing their children to the risk of high blood pressure and strokes by giving them foods containing a high amount of salt. The survey found that some foods like …
Diuretics Excel in Drug Comparison Trial Involving Hypertension …
WebWire - Diuretics were associated with reduced heart disease in a drug comparison trial involving 23,077 people with both high blood pressure and the metabolic syndrome, a cluster of risk factors for heart disease, report researchers from The University of …
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