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Very Low Blood Pressure, also known as Severe Hypotension, refers to a condition where the blood pressure levels drop significantly below the normal range, which can impair the adequate blood flow to the body’s vital organs. While this is a cardiac emergency, a common threshold mentioned is a...
Your blood pressure measures the pressure in your arteries during the active and resting phases of your heartbeat. Your blood pressure is recorded using two numbers. Your systolic blood pressure (top number) is the force at which your heart pumps blood around your body. Your diastolic blood pre...
Exercise can lower your blood sugar. A good workout is a great way to ease anxiety. While you're getting your sweat on, your brain pumps out endorphins and other “feel-good” chemicals. Over time, exercise rewires your brain so you feel better overall. Just be sure to adjust your ...
Giving ample workout to muscles ensures greater flexibility and enhances blood flow into the organs, which in fact is very important for sex. When you exercise regularly, the majority of the lifestyle diseases won’t even put their shadow over you. ...
A comprehensive metabolic panel (CMP) checks electrolytes, but also checks blood protein levels and your liver function. Sodium is key to helping send electrical signals between cells and controlling the amount of fluid in your body. Your body needs it for your cells to work the right way. Mo...
Electrolytes refer to the different substances in your blood that your cells need to work properly. Examples include sodium, potassium, calcium, and magnesium. And changes in yourelectrolytescan affect your heart rate. For example, dangerously high potassium levels or high calcium levels can slow th...
Fasting glucose and insulin are intermediate traits for type 2 diabetes. Here we explore the role of coding variation on these traits by analysis of variants on the HumanExome BeadChip in 60,564 non-diabetic individuals and in 16,491 T2D cases and 81,877
Studies prove that pets have calming effects, reduce blood pressure, lower stress, and make employees more cordial and productive. Pets bring about a kind of work-life balance that is very difficult to ignore. For most owners, their pets provide a kind of stress reduction and comfort, almost...
You might get a uric acid blood test if your doctor is concerned you could have a condition like gout or kidney stones. It's a simple test. But finding out if your uric acid blood level is high or low is often part of a more extensive workup. Once you know the bigger picture, you...