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Eyes,The Window To The Future

... in the eyes may be the window to detecting future hypertension as the retina appears to narrow before blood // pr... and categorized them as normal, high-normal, mild hypertension or severe hypertension. Five years later the participants underwent another examination. According ...

Multi-Drug Therapy Found To Be More Effective in Lowering B.P

...ized trial to compare two different treatments for hypertension // in older patients. Researchers say most patients require more than one medication to control their blood pressure, so this study was set up to look at multidrug strategies rather than individual drugs. The study found patients had similar outcomes...

Oxygen Consumption During Workouts Could Indicate Heart Problems

... problems. Research shows that patients with mild hypertension have some reductions in heart function. It was found that their hearts were not operating efficiently during exercise, and this was matched with decreased heart function at rest as revealed by newer imaging methods. ...

Analyzing The Side Effects Of Some Common Medications

...d their risk by 29 percent. Elderly patients with hypertension are at risk of developing osteoporosis, and they may potentially profit from positive effects of the relatively inexpensive beta-blockers and thiazide diuretics on fracture risk say researchers. However researchers say though their findings were sign...

Obesity A Risk Factor For Stroke

...onclude saying that it is not enough to just treat hypertension and diabetes to prevent stroke but obesity should also be considered a risk factor....

New Drug Shows Significant Improvement In HIV-related Heart Condition

...ents in an often fatal disease, pulmonary arterial hypertension ( PAH) // . PAH is usually linked with human immunodeficiency virus infection. HIV infection is believed to cause the overproduction of endothelin, which increases the chance for small pulmonary arteries to become obstructed. This chronic obstructio...

Reducing Blood Pressure in Women By Increasing Folate

... a means of lowering blood pressure and preventing hypertension in young women....

Heart Disease Risk Factors Found To Increase Risk of Dementia In Old Age

...ol had a 42-percent increased risk, and those with hypertension had a 24-percent increased risk. Those with two of these risk factors were 70-percent (0.7-times) more likely to be diagnosed with dementia than those with no risk factors. Individuals with three or more risk factors were twice as likely to develop d...

Obese people can be hypertensive as well

...t that body mass index are positively// related to hypertension and high blood pressure. 3216 people who had never been given any medication for hypertension were subjected to 24 hr monitoring of systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Body mass index could b...

Diuretics are better for treating blood pressure problems than newer medicines

...of the most important sets of trials conducted for hypertension by researchers of Case Western Reserve University,...an-Americans. However for the initial treatment of hypertension and high blood pressure, diuretics still remain the choice of the medical practitioners. ...

Research reports that c-section deliveries are rising

...ese included malpresentation, antepartum bleeding, hypertension and severe hypertension, macrosomia, unengaged head, pre-term gestation, fetal heart rate abnormalities, and maternal soft tissue disorders. After excluding women who had underwent labor, or had previous cesarean deliveries, the study had compiled th...

Diet and exercise to improve vascular function

...rials. The trials successfully helped in reducing hypertension and high blood pressure in people. For quite some, it acted as an agent for reducing weights also although this wasn’t the main goal of the trial....

High blood pressure during sleep may cause high blood sugar

... Researchers had found that of the 51 patients of hypertension studied in the age group of 60 to 80 years, 20 of them had blood pressure, which did not dip by 10% in the nights. Twin blood sugar tests of fasting and two-hour oral glucose tolerance had revealed an average score of 95 and 133 for the bigger group,...

Treating Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension In Children With Viagra

...easier. Children diagnosed with pulmonary arterial hypertension ( PAH) a condition in which blood pressure is extr...e same effects could help treat pulmonary arterial hypertension because expanding the blood vessels would prevent them from narrowing and as a result improve sympto...

Late pregnancy may be at risk from poor health and mental state

... with late pregnancy are miscarriages, stillbirth, hypertension for the mothers, and an increased risk of dying during or after delivery. While with egg donation and in vitro fertilization, it is possible for even a 66 year old to become a mother, the physical exertion of carrying a baby full term at an age abo...

Water pills for diabetic with high blood pressure

...lted in the lowest rate of heart failure due to // hypertension in both the groups of African-Americans and Americ...of the most important sets of trials conducted for hypertension by researchers of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland University and a few more centers. The ...

Normal Blood Pressure Could Add Over 5 Years To Your Life

...could live up to five years longer than those with hypertension or high blood pressure. The study found that peop...s difference in life expectancy between those with hypertension and those without," she said. "And while those with lower blood pressure lived longer, they also l...

Obesity and Physical inactivity is associated with Diabetes and Diabetes-Related Cardiovascular Comorbidities

...r comorbidities. Presence of diabetes and comorbid hypertension was more in those people who were overweight and inactive. The study has clearly identified obesity and being physically inactive are each associated independently to diabetes and related comorbidities. Diabetes Care. 2005 Jul;28(7):1599-603....

Hypertension Drug of Choice for African Americans

...ears without knowing it. - High blood pressure or hypertension means high pressure (tension) in the arteries. The arteries are the vessels that carry blood from the pumping heart to all of the tissues and organs of the body. - Blood pressure is typically recorded as the systolic pressure (as the heart beats) ov...

Dark Chocolate Is Helpful In Lowering Blood Pressure.

...day for 15 days. All the subjects were patients of hypertension and on no medication. The study found that patients who ate dark chocolate experienced an average 11.9 mm Hg drop in their systolic blood pressure and an 8.5 mm Hg drop in diastolic blood pressure. This effect was attributed to the flavinoid conten...

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