High blood pressure, or hypertension, occurs in one out of every three adults and 30 percent of these people don’t know they have it. This is why it’s called the “silent killer”. It often comes with no symptoms, yet it can lead to heart attack or stroke; two of the top three killers of adults […]
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Maintaining Good Blood Pressure
Maintaining good blood pressure may be easier than you think. However, before I go into any detail let me run a few things by you to put the situation into perspective. Roughly, over the last 80 years, death by heart disease has increased from less than 1% to 50%. It has been reported that almost […]
Blood Pressure and Mean Arterial Pressure
The blood pressure in our body is always changing and it is part of the human physiology. It is very rare that someone’s blood pressure is always the same because we are always active and we are always doing different things like eating, sitting, standing, walking, breathing, moving around and doing so many other things […]