Archive for January, 2010
Causes of High Blood Pressure
High blood pressure is a big problem around the world. Many people are given a diagnosis of high blood pressure and have no idea how they received the condition. For starters, it?s good to understand that there are two different types of high blood pressure: secondary high blood pressure, and primary high blood pressure. [...]
Full StoryHypertension-a Silent Killer
HYPERTENSION – A SILENT KILLER . Hypertension a common disease that result from the consistent constant elevation of the systolic or diastolic pressure above 140/90 mmhg , the diagnosis of hypertension requires that elevated readings be present on atleast three occassions during several weeks .Hypertension causes no symptoms to motivate a person to seek treatment [...]
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High blood force, too called hypertension, is harmful because it makes the eye job harder to pump blood to the system and it contributes to hardening of the arteries or atherosclerosis and the growth of eye bankruptcy. Hypertension is an exceedingly popular health trouble, affecting about one in four adults in the U. S. There [...]
Full StoryGetting Your Hypertension Under Control
Hypertension is a growing problem in the United States today. Everyday, more and more people are being diagnosed with it. Although there are several types of hypertension, all can lead to heart disease, heart attacks and even death, if left untreated. Hypertension can be caused by several different factors. Family history is the biggest factor [...]
Full StoryDevastating Effects of High Blood Pressure
High Blood Pressure also called hypertension, is elevated pressure of the blood in the arteries. Blood pressure is the measurement of force applied to artery walls High blood pressure has to be taken seriously. It is a serious disease, the cause of which is more or less unknown. What we do know is that left [...]
Full StoryIntroduction to High Blood Pressure
Knowing about your body can be very beneficial to your health as you age. Knowing about your blood pressure can help prevent strokes, heart disease and kidney disease. In this article you will find everything you should know about your blood pressure. Anyone can have high blood pressure. It doesn’t matter your age, race, ethnicity [...]
Full StoryStop Hypertension Naturally
Hypertension, high blood pressure (as it is commonly known), is at epidemic proportions in America. Second only to heart disease, almost 23,000 deaths were attributed to “hypertension” in 2004, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. The NCHS also placed the percentage of deaths for non-institutionalized people, due to “hypertension”, at 29% for the [...]
Full StoryHypertension – causes, prevention and treatment
Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a persistent blood pressure above 90 mm Hg between the heart beats (diastolic) or over 140 mm Hg at the beats (systolic). The blood pressure varies naturally in response to stress and physical work load. Therefore the blood pressure shall be measured in a relaxed situation and several times [...]
Full StoryWhat Causes Hypertension, Symptoms of Hypertension and Treatment
Blood pressure can be defined as the pressure or force that is applied against the artery walls as blood is carried through the circulatory system. It is recorded as a measurement of this force in relation to the heart’s pumping activity, and is measured in millimeters of mercury. The top number, systolic pressure is the [...]
Full StoryHypertension – A Silent Killer
Hypertension in its simplest sense means ?high blood pressure’. Medical science calls this condition, ?arterial hypertension’, but hidden beneath the apparent simplicity of the term is the face of a silent killer. This silent killer can invariably trigger a heart attack, stroke, arterial aneurysm, eye damage, or a complete renal failure out of the blue, [...]
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