80 per cent of strokes preventable
Campbell River Mirror - British Columbia, Canada
High blood pressure can speed up the plaque buildup on the inside of arteries (atherosclerosis), and cause thin, fragile balloon-like bulges, ...
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Racial differences in hypertension care
Science Daily (press release) - USA
MIAMI, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- African-Americans are less likely than whites to receive hospital care for high blood pressure emergencies in Florida, a study found ...
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EMS1.com News
EMS1.com - Emergency Medical Service Resources - San Francisco,CA,USA
So what causes high blood pressure? About 90 percent of the time we don't know for sure and use the terms 'primary' or 'essential' hypertension to describe ...
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Stress can crank up the risk of heart disease
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
This means it contributes to clogging of the arteries along with smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, etc. But stress has always been ...
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High Blood Pressure on the Rise in Kids
KSWT-TV - Yuma,AZ,USA
The study by the Morehouse School of Medicine shows high blood pressure is making a comeback in children. Relay races and obstacle courses were just some of ...
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After Surviving Breast Cancer, Women Face Increased Risk Of Heart ...
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Experimental therapies that limit the growth of blood vessels in tumors can cause abnormal blood clotting, high blood pressure and reduced cardiac function. ...
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Strokes strike even when it seems unlikely
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
Some risk factors, such as high blood pressure, can be treated and controlled. But others cannot. McGehee, who died Tuesday after suffering a stroke while ...
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High Blood Pressure: If you want to know the truth, test it at night
What Doctors Don't Tell You - London,UK
Keeping blood pressure in check safely - There are literally scores of ways to reduce high blood pressure (BP) without having to take recourse to drugs. ...
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Rising Blood Pressure Tied To Diabetes
CBS News - New York,NY,USA
Normal blood pressure is systolic blood pressure (the first number) below 120 and diastolic blood pressure (the second number) below 80. High blood pressure ...
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Event educational for senior citizens
Columbus Telegram - Columbus,NE,USA
Zadina gave a presentation about hypertension, how it is diagnosed, the dangers of high blood pressure and treatments for it. Hypertension is a prevalent ...
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Scores drop in for a free health check
ic Coventry - Coventry,UK
Statistics suggest that about a third of people with high blood pressure do not know that they have it. If blood pressure is high it causes strain on the ...
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Want to be healthy over 50? Get these tests
MSNBC - USA
Blood pressure: According to current treatment guidelines, the blood pressure target is 130/80 or lower for patients with diabetes. Blood pressure readings ...
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Pressure On Smuts Revealed
New Haven Independent - CT, USA
Below 120/80 is good; anything above 140/90 is considered high blood pressure, and we recommend you see your doctor. Anything in between is considered ...
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As kids' obesity rises, so does their blood pressure
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
Researchers at Atlanta's Morehouse School of Medicine have just reported a rising rate of high blood pressure among America's children, based on surveys of ...
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Bottomline soars, so does blood pressure
Times of India - India
The high calorie intake took its toll on fitness levels: 69.23% were hopelessly unfit. So what's pushing the top executive to the brink? ''It's the pressure ...
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A quick health check for the busy Bangalorean
Hindu - Chennai,India
This is how it works - THC is conducted with a portable kit, which includes an ECG monitor, monitors and devices for checking blood pressure, blood glucose ...
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Saving a heart under attack
Independent on Saturday (subscription) - South Africa
Too much salt can cause high blood pressure. Watch out for foods such as crisps, salted nuts, canned and packet soups and sauces, baked beans and canned ...
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Under pressure
Business Standard - India
Water retention, or edema, occurs when the fluid component of the blood moves out of blood vessels due to the increasing pressure inside the vessel. ...
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High Blood Presure - Assuming Epidemic Proportions
PR-GB.com (press release) - Sofia,Bulgaria
People would be shocked if they knew the exact figures as to the number of the sufferers of high blood pressure are in the United Kingdom and the United ...
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Hypertension rising threat among young
Online Athens (subscription) - Athens,GA,USA
Obesity's silent sidekick - high blood pressure - has local health officials concerned, especially for Northeast Georgia's poorest, youngest residents. ...
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High blood pressure, a silent killer
News 10 Now - Syracuse,NY,USA
Millions of Americans suffer high blood pressure and don't know it, and it's the disease they call the silent killer. "Because there are very few symptoms, ...
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Nighttime dialysis improves quality of life: report
CTV.ca - Canada
Sixteen of those doing the nighttime dialysis were also able to reduce or discontinue their high blood pressure medication, versus only three in the ...
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Narrowed kidney artery can raise blood pressure
Chattanooganow (subscription) - Chattanooga,TN,USA
DONOHUE: I am under treatment for high blood pressure. Recently my systolic reading (first number) was over 200, and my son took me to the emergency room. ...
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The Urgent Need to Reduce Sodium Consumption
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription) - Chicago,IL,USA
7 The evidence implicating excess sodium intake as a major cause of high blood pressure levels has been called "overwhelming. ...
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Scotland stands behind America as the world's second fattest nation
Times Online - UK
Obese men are more than five times as likely to develop type 2 diabetes than those of normal weight, 2.6 times as likely to suffer from high blood pressure ...
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On World Heart Day Follow-Up Your Cardiometabolic Risk Factors ...
PR Newswire UK (press release) - London,UK
"Heart disease and stroke are largely preventable if the main risk factors, including high blood pressure, high levels of cholesterol and blood glucose, ...
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Health Screening Tests That Everyone Needs
U.S. News & World Report - Washington,DC,USA
High blood pressure: Adults ages 18 and older should be screened for high blood pressure, but there is no agreed-upon interval between tests. ...
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The silent killer
Newindpress - Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India
High blood pressure is one of the most common problems. In India alone, nearly 15 crore patients need medical treatment for this. Dr Upendra Kaul presents ...
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A growing health concern: Sick doctors
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
Fite, an emergency physician, has high blood pressure and was aware that it had reached a potentially life-threatening level: 200/120. Normal blood pressure ...
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Abbott Initiates Clinical Study to Evaluate Use of RX Herculink(R ...
CNNMoney.com - USA
In patients who have uncontrolled high blood pressure (hypertension) without apparent cause, renal artery stenosis is often discovered as the culprit during ...
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Chronic Anger May Incense Your Heart
CBS News - New York City,NY,USA
Compared with less angry men, chronically angry men with prehypertension were moderately more likely to develop high blood pressure (hypertension) and heart ...
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Recognize the Silent Killer Coming to You: High Blood Pressure
PR-GB.com (press release) - Sofia,Bulgaria
High Blood pressure is known to be the silent killer by the medical practitioners as; it risks life without any warning. Without any serious symptoms and ...
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Do you have a healthy heart?
iAfrica.com - Cape Town,South Africa
If you can't burn off all the energy you consume, you risk becoming overweight or obese, possibly leading to diabetes, high blood pressure, and high ...
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Doctor, Druggist Seem to Buck Tradition
The Ledger - Lakeland,FL,USA
... coronary blood vessels and lowers cholesterol; coenzyme Q10, a powerful antioxidant; vitamin B complex, which is depleted by some high blood pressure ...
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Daiichi Sankyo's Benicar Combination Clears US FDA (Update2)
Bloomberg - USA
Forest Laboratories Inc., of New York, has agreed to help Tokyo-based Daiichi market the product in the US High blood pressure affects almost a third of ...
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Memory tasks require more coordinated brain blood flow for people ...
EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
Blood flow to the parts of the brain that support memory function differs between people with high blood pressure and those with normal blood pressure, ...
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Farming UK - Linthwaite,Huddersfield,UK
Certain herbs contain compounds that can actually reduce blood pressure and other stress-induced symptoms." The main research findings show that basil is ...
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High blood pressure may be due to excess weight in half of ...
EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
As many as 50 percent of overweight men and women with high blood pressure may have hypertension as a result of being overweight, researchers reported today ...
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Introducing Strativa Pharmaceuticals
CNNMoney.com - USA
Some people may experience side effects associated with Megace ES that include impotence, passing gas, rash, high blood pressure, fever, decreased libido, ...
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Docs skip vital heart checks
Health24.com - Cape Town,South Africa
The survey showed that, in South Africa, high blood pressure is recognised by 89 percent of primary care physicians as a risk factor, followed by high blood ...
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Round and round it goes: The circulatory system
Cayman Net News - grand cayman,Cayman Islands
Start by making changes in the way we live, like cutting back on fatty foods, controlling diabetes and high blood pressure (if they are present), ...
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Antihypertensive Treatment May Help Maintain Memory
Medscape (subscription) - USA
American Heart Association 61st Annual Fall Conference of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research: Abstract P105. Presented September 27, 2007.
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US FDA Approves New Hypertension Treatment
CNNMoney.com - USA
Azor is approved for use in patients with high blood pressure, or hypertension, who initially failed treatment on other medications. ...
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Possible Side Effects of Drugs for High Blood Pressure
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
And How to Address the Root Causes and Symptoms of High Blood Pressure Without Drugs? What is blood pressure? Your blood is carried from the heart to all ...
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South Africa: Doctors 'Failing to Recognise Signs Patients' Lives ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The 2007 Shape of the Nations survey found that although doctors were well aware that the classic measures of high blood pressure, high blood sugar, ...
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Senior Scene: About your Health: Staying healthy important as we age
Oneonta Daily Star - Oneonta,NY,USA
If you already have "" or think you might have "" one of those conditions that affect us as we age _ things such at high blood pressure (hypertension), ...
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Heart under attack
Times of India - India
Get more sleep - Too little sleep may increase your risk of developing high BP. Sleep allows the heart to slow down and blood pressure to drop for a ...
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Weight link to high blood pressure
The Press Association -
Half of overweight people with high blood pressure could have the condition as a result their size. Researchers in Italy found that about 50% of overweight ...
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9 Steps to a young and healthy heart
Hindustan Times - India
Knowing your blood pressure or total cholesterol is not enough. Several other factors are an equal threat to heart health. If you want to keep your heart ...
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Facing up to the cardiovascular epidemic
Hindu - Chennai,India
Polypill is not ideal for high-risk individuals with very high blood pressure, diabetes and other risk factors, where frequent dosage adjustments and ...
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Weight Loss Can Control Hypertension
Washington Post - United States
28 (HealthDay News) -- An Italian study has identified overweight as a direct cause of high blood pressure. And it also showed that up to half of overweight ...
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Diabetic treatment too much, patients say
Houston Chronicle - United States
But he says swallowing daily pills for his diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol is enough of a chore. Now 59, he has decided: "I don't want to ...
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Not just a man's heart
Malaysia Star - Malaysia
Your risk of heart disease increases if you have a family history of diabetes, high blood pressure or high blood pressure, or if you have family members ...
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Seven Qigong Practices for Hypertension #3
PR-GB.com (press release) - Sofia,Bulgaria
Alcohol can cause high blood pressure, but when consumed in moderate amounts also help the heart. Therefore, restrict yourself to no more than one or two ...
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Lean plate club: Skip the pills, go to the menu
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - Minneapolis,MN,USA
That's the idea behind using foods -- from avocados, barley and beans to nuts, oatmeal and soy -- to control the high blood pressure and elevated ...
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Eat your way to lower blood pressure
What Doctors Don't Tell You - London,UK
High blood pressure is considered a "silent epidemic," as lots of people have it but don't know it. The usual treatment is drugs, and there are some dietary ...
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