A Healthy Diet is Important for a Healthy Heart
This article is to help you understand some of the problems caused by high blood pressure and hypertension and to give you some dietary instructions to eat healthy to stay healthy. The blood pressure of a resting, healthy adult should be 120/80 or lower. If levels between 120/80 and 140/90, then you are considered in the pre-hypertensive stage. If you blood pressure is above 140/90, then you are considered in the hypertensive stage. Both pre-hypertensive and hypertensive patients must make diet, exercise and lifestyle changes to reduce the risk of hypertension and heart disease. There are tremendous hazards associated with hypertension and ...
Exercise Your Heart Muscle
It looks as if most Americans are leading lives that direct them towards hypertension or elevated blood pressure. Almost half of older Americans develop hypertension. This makes people much more apt to suffer strokes, heart attacks, and heart failure. A major problem with it is that about a large number of the people who develop hypertension, don’t even know it. It rarely causes pain. Even though it may not cause discomfort, it must be dealt with because, as time passes with this elevated pressure, your blood vessels will become severely damaged. Sometimes abnormalities of the kidney can be responsible. There have ...
Do You Have Hypertension?
Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a medical condition in which the blood pressure in elevated on three consecutive readings that there are done three hours apart. The exception is pregnant women where high blood pressure is defined as being elevated on two consecutive readings. Hypertension can affect anyone but mainly affects middle-aged or elderly people. If left untreated, hypertension can cause stroke, heart disease and failure, possible aneurysms, severe kidney problems, and a number of other systemic diseases. For someone to be considered borderline hypertensive, one's reading must range between normal and high or must range higher than 140/90 (the ...
Causes of Hypertension
Hypertension: The Sneaky Killer
Hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, is referred to as being quiet and deadly. It is so called because without feeling any discomfort or pain, you can be experiencing breakdown of the tissues of your vital organs. This is life threatening...
The Cause of Primary Pulmonary Hypertension is a Mystery
While hard to believe, the truth about the cause or causes of primary pulmonary hypertension or PPH has never been determined. Researchers on this topic, however, do have several theories. One major theory is that certain diet drugs, also known...
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A Healthy Diet is Important for a Healthy Heart
This article is to help you understand some of the problems caused by high blood pressure and hypertension and to give you some dietary instructions to eat healthy to stay healthy. The blood pressure of a resting, healthy adult should be 120/80 or lower. If levels between 120/80...
Exercise Your Heart Muscle
It looks as if most Americans are leading lives that direct them towards hypertension or elevated blood pressure. Almost half of older Americans develop hypertension. This makes people much more apt to suffer strokes, heart attacks, and heart failure. A major problem with it...
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What Is Hypertension?
Hypertension is the medical name for high blood pressure. The term “blood pressure” is used to describe the pressure within the arterial walls that moves blood from the heart and around the body. When the arterial walls narrow, it makes it harder for the blood to flow through them. The heart has to pump harder to get the blood flowing through and... [Read more of this post]
Do You Have Hypertension?
Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a medical condition in which the blood pressure in elevated on three consecutive readings that there are done three hours apart. The exception is pregnant women where high blood pressure is defined as being elevated on two consecutive readings. Hypertension can affect anyone but mainly affects middle-aged or... [Read more of this post]
Malignant Hypertension: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
Malignant hypertension is a rare but serious form of hypertension, or high blood pressure, which needs to be treated quickly. It is defined as the systolic (the top number) and diastolic (the bottom number) numbers being higher than 240 and 120. If this condition is treated on a prompt basis, it can cause complications in the eyes, brain, lung, and/or... [Read more of this post]
Hypertension and You
Because hypertension is such a common medical condition with very few symptoms, it’s very easy for people to ignore their diagnosis and avoid treatment. However if hypertension is left untreated, it can lead to severe health problems, including premature death. This is why it is important to treat hypertension and to keep it under control. The... [Read more of this post]
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