The National High Blood Pressure Education Program is an association that consist of professional, public, voluntary and federal agencies. This association has established guidelines with regards with the type of common blood pressure medication to be used to control your high blood pressure. There a huge number of drugs available that are used as common […]
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Systolic Blood Pressure
How often do you go to your doctor to have your blood pressure check-up? Or when was the last time you had it? Though you have normal blood pressure, it is still recommended to have your blood pressure checked regularly. You may not know your systolic blood pressure have increased. Systolic blood pressure is the […]
High Blood Pressure – Critical Facts About a Silent Killer, Part I
High blood pressure (hypertension) is indeed a silent killer. In a significaare no symptoms until you end up with a stroke, heart attack, eye disent number of cases there ase which may lead to blindness, or even chronic kidney disease leading to dialysis. Know the Critical Facts. Do you know what your blood pressure is […]
Blood Pressure Numbers
Your blood pressure, which is caused by two forces, is the pressure of your blood pushing against the walls of the arteries. One of the forces is created as the heart pumps blood into the arteries and through the body’s circulatory system while the other force comes from the arteries’ resistance to the blood flow. […]
Reduce High Blood Pressure Safely With Vitamin C
The suspenseful music rises. The darkness comes upon you. A full moon dimly lights the vacant wooded area. You know that a silent killer lives in these dark woods. You hear something. Something or someone is following you. In a cold sweat, you look over your shoulder. The music crescendos into frightful intervals. All you […]
Normal Blood Pressure Reading Know-How
So you want to know what your normal blood pressure reading is. The next time you visit the doctor, you ask the nurse’s aide to tell you. That is after she finishes putting the cuff on your arm, pumping it until you think your arm is going to explode, and then she rattles off a […]
Three Foods That Lower High Blood Pressure
High blood pressure has been nicknamed the silent epidemic because of its far-reaching consequences. Today, nearly one of every three adults has hypertension. It is the 13th largest cause of death in the United States. Amazingly, studies based on the well-known Framingham Heart Study have estimated that a 55-year-old person has a 90-percent lifetime […]