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Self control makes stress response easy

...ally damaging to health because it increases blood pressure and resistance to blood flow. Over time, these res...t they could do nothing about the noise. The blood pressure and resistance to blood flow rose less in the group that believed they had control. In reality, th...

Function of genes in heart failure

...uences were as powerful or even more so than blood pressure level, age, gender, weight, where your live or whether you have diabetes. Previous research by Dr. Kitzman showed more than half of those with heart failure had diastolic heart failure. When looking at gender, 60 percent of women had diastolic failu...

Overweight can affect sex life

...also were more likely to be older, have high blood pressure and weigh more. Men with a waistline measuring 40 inches were nearly twice as likely to suffer erectile dysfunction compared with men whose girth measured 30 inches. Even after adjusting for age, smoking and hypertension, men with a larger waistlin...

Similar diseases in married couples

People whose spouses have asthma, high blood pressure or depression are more likely to suffer from these...selves. There was also a shared risk in high blood pressure and high blood cholesterol. This fascinating bond is most likely to arise from the shared martial ...

Risk of dementia reduced hypertension drugs

... to a new study it is observed that reducing blood pressure by medication can reduce the risk of dementia by h...by doctors in Dallas, the effect of lowering blood pressure on dementia rates has been examined. A group of patients with systolic hypertension - with levels ...

Early therapy aids eyesight

...edicine and laser to reduce the amount of internal pressure in the eye. The rest of the group was left untreat...e untreated patients. In the treated patients, eye pressure was lowered by about 25 percent. Many patients showed no disease progression during the study. Howev...

Identifying brain lesions with impaired consciousness

...o a new study it is indicative that systolic blood pressure is a good indicator for diagnosing brain lesions i... brain lesion diagnosis showed that systolic blood pressure levels was more precise in the determination of brain lesions than diastolic blood pressure levels o...

Swelling increases stroke risk with high B.P.

...h blood pressure. Although we know that high blood pressure is a risk factor for stroke, //it's still the case... healthy Swedish men, measuring stroke risk, blood pressure and levels of the inflammation-sensitive plasma proteins (ISPs). The men were followed up for nearly...

Lifetime risk of heart failure increases

...s the population ages. //It's caused by increasing pressure within the heart which makes it hard to pump blood...ends were also found for those who have high blood pressure - which roughly doubles the risk of heart failure for both men and women. The study strongly suggest...

Life anticipation differences identified

According to researchers, high blood pressure is a major factor accounting for differences in li...ey of around 650,000 adults, found that high blood pressure is a major factor, accounting for 16 per cent of the gap in life expectancy between black and white ...

Dealing heart disease risk in ethnic minorities

...ould use lower thresholds when treating high blood pressure and other cardiac risk factors in ethnic minoritie... there were also many instances where target blood pressure was not being met. This suggests that African and South Asian people are at risk of hypertension whi...

Spine Surgeries becoming less painful

...to the vertebral column to free the spinal cord of pressure created due to extended discs and enlarged bones. The advantages of the system as stated by Dr. Amit Jhala of Chirayu Hospital in Ahmedabad are that there is less tissue damage and lesser blood loss and the patient can be discharged within two days...

Unhappy relationships could result in more than just heart breaks!

...ns between 6 weeks and 6 months). Ambulatory blood pressure over 24 hours and an echocardiogram of the heart w...ress, were found to have a 24 hour diastolic blood pressure about 6 mm Hg higher when they were with their spouses than when they were not. Those who were satis...

Imitating celebrity mums may prove unsafe for mom and child

...men, who have started feeling inadequate and under pressure to look good. In some cases, it has even prompted ...y, which has started a campaign to help reduce the pressure that ordinary moms are feeling, reveals that it has been receiving hundreds of mails from women who ...

More compelling reasons to lower blood pressure

...earchers who analyzed 61 previous studies of blood pressure and cardiovascular disease, which together include.... The researchers say that every drop in systolic pressure (the top number) of 20 millimeters of mercury, and every 10 point decline in diastolic pressure (the...

Lowering blood pressure beneficial for PAD patients

...abetes. The subjects, 483 of whom had normal blood pressure and 52 of whom had PAD, were given, either a placebo or a blood pressure lowering drug. In the first group, blood pressure went down to an average of 137/81 mm Hg and in the...

Glaucoma & Ocular Hypertension more likely in patients with refractive errors

... (nearsightedness and farsightedness), intraocular pressure and glaucoma, and five-year follow-up measurements of intraocular pressure and ocular hypertension. Researchers found that farsighted participants were 40 percent more likel...

Good news for moderate alcohol drinkers!

...ld try lowering their cholesterol levels and blood pressure as a better route to cardiovascular health....

Do you love nuts? Then here's some good news for you!

...hat help protect against heart disease, high blood pressure and stroke, and may also prevent certain forms of cancer. <br...

Just one cigarette could cause significant damage

...tation index, aortic pulse wave velocity and blood pressure in 28 subjects, of whom 11 were chronic smokers, b...in the aorta. It was found that the brachial blood pressure was not different in chronic smokers and non-smokers, though the aortic systolic blood pressure was ...

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