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 hand, the odd wee drink now and then (he says picking his pint glass up again) is actually quite [...]
High blood pressure and heart disease are very inter-related. This article explores that relationship. It is important to understand the synergy between the two. Further, it is important to understand that we are discussing a serious health condition here, that it truly may be a matter of life or death. High blood pressure is sometimes [...]
Some risk factors, such as age and male gender, are beyond our control, but we can modify many other factors and even eliminate them altogether. Family history of a heart attack is a very strong risk factor, but it can be limited to a certain degree. For instance, obesity, high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, and cigarette [...]
An alternate method to treat the serious cardiovascular condition is the high blood pressure acupuncture. Actually, the acupuncture is the most common form of complimentary healthcare treatment used to reduce high blood pressure. This type of healthcare is a conventional Western form of treatment that has been proven to be very successful. In fact, the [...]
Today, many of these home remedies or natural remedies are being proven to be sound and effective…not to mention safe and without side effects. I remember my great grandmother grew garlic on a fence row when I was just a little kid. Garlic, as you know, has a very strong odor. I asked her what [...]
Milk protein may be the answer to lowering high blood pressure in some people; however, it isn’t the only alternative. In fact, did you know that making something as natural as eating garlic apart of your regular diet can actually reduce blood pressure and help you manage your hypertension? Garlic is a vegetable that is [...]
When the blood pressure reading was taken in home it is somewhere between normal and slightly high. But when it is taken at doctor’s clinic it reads very high. One of my client was saying about the difference in her spouse’s blood pressure reading. By seeing the doctor her husband’s blood pressure was raising. My [...]
In the overall scheme of things you have to put being given a diagnosis of High Blood Pressure into perspective. On the scale of being told you have terminal and potentially fatal illness High Blood Pressure has to be looked at in the right way. Now by saying all of this I do not wish [...]
Notoriously known as The Silent Killer, High blood pressure has slowly crept into our lives. One of the leading causes of heart diseases, high blood pressure or HBP already affects over 1 billion people worldwide and is estimated to increase by half a billion more by 2025. If these estimates are anything to go by [...]
General Characteristics In the last decade, there has been a dramatic decline in the number of deaths from heart attacks. In 1970, nearly a million Americans died of cardiovascular disease; now the annual toll is below 600,000. The cause for this improved mortality rate are unknown, but most experts believe that the increased awareness of [...]
