Birth control high blood pressure symptoms can be a problem for women taking certain types of hormonal contraceptives. The two birth control methods that pose the most risk include the birth control pill and the birth control patch. However, not every woman who uses these methods of birth control will experience high blood pressure, as […]
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Caffeine – Hypertension Helper?
Because caffeine is a stimulant, it would seem at first that it would be something to avoid if you’re hypertensive. However, although caffeine causes a temporary spike in blood pressure, there’s no evidence to show that it has any long-term effects on hypertension. The more hypertensive you are, however, the more it affects your pressure […]
High Blood Pressure Symptoms And Treatment That Could Prevent Heart Disease
High Blood Pressure Symptoms The great anomaly about high blood pressure (BP) is that in the beginning it does not produce any symptoms, and sadly many people walk around with a ticking time bomb that could go off at anytime. Although there are no symptoms at the beginning, you may experience a range of symptoms […]
Natural Hypertension Treatment
Hypertension quite simply is a chronic elevation of blood pressure. It is the most common cardiovascular disease, and is the leading cause of stroke, as well as a major cause of heart attacks. Unfortunately often people do not even realize that they suffer from hypertension. They can readily not even know until it is too […]
Vitamins and Minerals for a Healthy Reproductive System
Vitamins, minerals and other nutrients are essential to the development and proper performance of the reproductive system. Nutrition plays a vital role in the development and maturity of the reproductive system through childhood and adolescence and can even affect the endocrine system which regulates the hormones that rule the functions of the reproductive system. Nutrition […]
Just How Essential Are Vitamins When It Comes To Maintaining Good Health?
At some time in your life, a medical professional has probably asked you about your family history of illness and disease. When you start making a list, it can actually get quite scary. Chances are you can identify relatives who’ve had things like diabetes, heart disease or cancer, which potentially increases your risk for the […]
What Does Blood Pressure Really Mean?
The two values of blood pressure (usually120/80 mmHg) signify the pressure in your arteries in two stages. The first value is the pressure the blood exerts on your artery walls when the heart contracts (also known as systole) and the second lower value is the pressure when the heart is relaxed (also known as Diastole). […]
Tips On Preventing Hypertension In Women
In women 45 years of age or older, sixty percent of Caucasian women and seventy-nine percent of African-American women have hypertension. It is estimated that thirty percent of elderly women over 65 years are diagnosed with isolated systolic hypertension. Therefore, as you age your risk of developing high blood pressure increases drastically. Although the risk […]
Blood Pressure Tips For Diabetics
You should be receiving regular blood pressure checks if you have long term chronic illness. If you want to check it more often than you go to the doctor, you can purchase a monitoring device that lets you measure blood pressure. There are different kinds to choose from. Two of those are the aneroid and […]
Seeking the Cure For Diabetes
With adult onset diabetes running rampant many clamor for more diabetes research to find a cure of diabetes. Already as much as 20% of the population show signs diagnostic of the disease and many more are silently developing it. With the dollars poured out for diabetic problems, 12 billion dollars per year on diabetes research […]
Primary Pulmonary Hypertension
Every year an estimated 300 new Primary Pulmonary Hypertension cases are diagnosed. Statistics say that out of every 100,000 people, 8 people become vulnerable to this malady. Women between ages 20 and 40 years are the most prone to it–women seem twice as much at risk as men. Essentially, Pulmonary Hypertension is a rare disorder […]
Causes, Symptoms, and Natural Remedies For High Blood Pressure
The American Heart Association reports that almost a third of all adults in the United States are suffering from high blood pressure (hypertension). Unfortunately, hypertension is known as a silent disease, which may be why one-third of sufferers are unaware that they have the condition. Some people can go on for years without experiencing even […]
10 Sure Ways to Prevent Hypertension
Hypertension is a condition nobody desires to have because of the attendant complications or problems that come with it. Hypertension is really dangerous and could shorten one’s life span by as much as 20 years if nothing concrete is done to control it. There are a lot of things you can really do to help […]