High blood pressure, or hypertension, is known all over the world as the silent killer. Many people who have it are not even aware of it. As such many of them will die because they have not been checked out by a doctor or bothered to take their own blood pressure reading. This is a sad fact of life ......[Read More]

An instant surge of high blood pressure can be caused by many different physical, emotional and environmental factors. You should be concerned with the frequency of occurrence and try to reduce what causes these spikes.......[Read More]

Many cardiac conditions can be improved by working with a dietitian or qualified nutritionist. The majority of cardiac nutritionists are found working in cardiac rehabilitation programs to assist clients in recovery from heart attacks, stroke or surgery.The nutritionist teaches clients w......[Read More]

If you are an African American man you are far more likely to have high blood pressure than a white male. Not only that, but it's more difficult to control for you. Check out what you can do to protect yourself without resorting to drugs.......[Read More]

Hypertension (high blood pressure) is a dangerous health condition that can be managed through personal behaviors such as eating a heart healthy diet and engaging in regular physical activity, as well as taking medications that lower blood pressure. Over a period of years, hypertension that is not ......[Read More]

Apart from essential secondary and remediable hypertension, drugs can also be the main cause of hypertension. But in many cases this occurs in persons taking hypertension causing medications without any physician or pharmacist consent. This is because these medications are generally available over t......[Read More]

The low salt and salt free diets may be on their way out for heart patients. Is it possible that the use of refined table salt, which has been stripped of most of its minerals and trace minerals, except sodium and chloride, is responsible for so much high blood pressure in the US?......[Read More]

It just goes without saying that high blood pressure is a very very serious condition that needs to be dealt with immediately. Yet there are many people who think hypertension as a mild condition. If you are serious about lowering your blood pressure to a healthy and stable level, make sure you read......[Read More]

Find out why blood pressure readings change quickly. Know why your blood pressure readings have erratic changes.......[Read More]

Hypertension diets are commonly used to lower high blood pressure. Foods enriched in nutrients, mainly calcium, potassium, magnesium, protein and fiber are recommended to lower blood pressure. Decreasing salt and sodium enhanced foods are typically included in all hypertension diets. ......[Read More]

In this article, I'll tell you if it can and also describe why and how stress might be able to affect blood pressure. Indeed it can.......[Read More]

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Here are Five Tips to Quickly Lower Blood Pressure Hydrate: Dehydration will quickly make elevated blood pressure numbers jump even higher. Your body needs water to operate efficiently. Make sure that you get at least 8 glasses of liquid each day - more if you are very active which you should be.......[Read More]

A tablet that contains two different types of blood-pressure-lowering medications cut the risk of heart attack, stroke or death by one-fifth, compared with an older combination drug, researchers report.......[Read More]

Those of us with hypertension will do well heed the warning given by the aged sea farer in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem. We may no longer recall any of the "Rime of the ancient Mariner" other than "Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink", but The old sea dog is tal......[Read More]

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With a rapid change in lifestyles, work pressures, a fast paced life or even personal habits, hypertension has come across as a medical issue of significant magnitude and serious concern. The condition is vastly prevalent in both, developing and developed countries. In United States, 67 million peop......[Read More]

One of the most popular and widely used medications are those used for high blood pressure.In America we have an obesity crisis.About two-thirds of Americans are overweight.......[Read More]