Pediatric Hypertension

5 April 2011

Share The latest publication of National Heart, Lungs and Blood Institute reveals that pediatric hypertension is growing like an epidemic throughout the United States of America. But, now it has become a matter of concern as it is rapidly spreading among adolescents and children. The rate of increase in smaller age groups is more than [...]

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Analyzing Your Blood Pressure

5 April 2011

Share One of the most dangerous things about high blood pressure, or hypertension, is that there are often few or no. Often, it is difficult to know that you have it, if not impossible, unless you make regular routine visits to the doctor. These are important, because hypertension can lead to all types of terrible [...]

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High Blood Pressure and Blindness

5 April 2011

Share High blood pressure, more often known as the silent killer’ shows no particular symptoms. It has become a very common medical disorder and a cause of alarm in medical science and public health. Sedentary and stressful lifestyles, smoking, alcohol abuse, excess weight and a faulty diet, all contribute to a potentially dangerous high blood [...]

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Why High Blood Pressure Is A Matter Of Health Concern

4 April 2011

Share Let us start with blood pressure reading, it consists of both systolic and diastolic reading as 120/80 mm Hg or higher. If one or both of these numbers in the reading value are consistently high, you have high blood pressure. Anybody can be a victim of high blood pressure even the little kids are [...]

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What Are The Risk Factors For Hypertension

4 April 2011

Share Hypertension can lead to other diseases as well as make other conditions worse. Hypertension also greatly increases your risk of a Heart Attack or Stroke. It is important to your health and your future to learn about the risk factors for hypertension. Some risk factors cannot be changed and we must accept them, but [...]

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Improper Size Blood Pressure Cuffs

4 April 2011

Share Blood pressure has something to do with the personality of an individual. Obese personalities have a higher rate of blood pressure. Their suffering and style of hypertension is different from that of the ordinary people.

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To stay healthy keep blood pressure normal

4 April 2011

Share For circulating blood throughout your body for supplying nutrients, oxygen and bringing back the toxic wastes, the blood pressure is essential. Normal value of blood pressure is the force with which the blood moves in the arteries from heart to different parts of your body. This normal value varies from person to person and [...]

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Some Symptoms of Atherosclerosis

4 April 2011

Share Before discussing the symptoms of atherosclerosis, it would be imperative to know about the disease itself. Atherosclerosis disease is basically a slow process of thickening the wall of arteries causing the less flow of blood in any part of the body as it can affect any organ of the body. But it becomes more [...]

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Risk Of Hypertension And Diabetes

4 April 2011

Share Research has shown that the population of diabetics with hypertension is greater than the population of non-diabetics with hypertension. It has also shown that there is a link between the two diseases. According to Dr. William White of the University of Connecticut Health Center, diabetes causes metabolic changes due to the body’s resistance to [...]

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Normal blood pressure is best to stay healthy

4 April 2011

Share Blood circulating through the arteries from heart exert some pressure on the walls of the arteries which is called blood pressure. There is a normal amount of force with which blood travels through the veins, this is called normal blood pressure. In fact, there are two pressures that are being exerted by blood on [...]

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Normal Blood Pressure in Children

4 April 2011

Share The term blood pressure is synonymous to adults and elderly people, but even the children can have either high or low blood pressure. Blood pressure is broadly defined as the force or pressure which the blood exerts against the walls of the blood-carrying arteries. Blood pressure is measured by taking the systolic pressure and [...]

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Is High Blood Pressure A Health Concern

4 April 2011

Share Let the ignorance be bliss anywhere else other than in case of hypertension, the ‘Silent killer’, as it has come to be known as, might just end up slaying a lot many than it already has. It is not without any reason that it is fast becoming a pain in the neck for the [...]

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