Protecting yourself from high blood pressure risksA typical visit to your doctor will likely start with having your blood pressure taken. Have you ever wondered why?Teddi Dineley Johnson
60 millionpeople worldwide suffer from high blood pressure. Uncontrolled blood pressure may be responsible for many cases of death, disability resulting from heart diseases. According to research, “the higher your blood pressure, higher the risk”. So the risk of dying of a heart attack is dir...
bloodpressurecardiovascularriskIndiaHigh blood pressure, and other cardiovascular disese (CVD) risk factors are increasingly prevalent in the urban Indian population. Data regarding this clustering of risk factors is scarce from developing countries. We carried out a comprehensive cross-sectional CVD risk...
Researchers will hopefully find the causes for the high incidence of high blood pressure in Black people. In the meantime, there is a lot you can do to keep high blood pressure from damaging your health. High Blood Pressure Risk Factors for Black People ...
February 2012 to February 2016 in the study called themselves current smokers and more than 10 percent said they were social smokers, meaning that they didn't smoke every day, about 75 percent of these current and social smokers had high blood pressure and roughly 54 percent had high ...
Blood transfusions also have potential side effects of: allergic reactions fever rashes or hives The risks of EPO injections include: hyperkalemia (potentially dangerous elevation of plasma potassium levels in the body) high blood pressure mild flu-like symptoms Athletes who use synthetic oxygen carrier...
Certain injuries can indirectly impact cardiovascular health, particularly if they limit mobility or lead to weight gain due to a sedentary lifestyle. Prolonged periods of inactivity following an injury can weaken the heart and increase the risk of conditions such as high blood pressure, heart diseas...
The American-based Health Effects Institute says air pollution is the second-largest riskfactorfor early death worldwide, behind high blood pressure. 美国的健康影响研究所表示,空气污染是全球早期死亡的第二大危险因素,仅次于高血压。 Short-termexposurecan causeasthmaattacks and increase the risk of heart...
An estimated 9% of women of childbearing age in the U.S. have high blood pressure—also called hypertension—according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Among those who do, almost 41% are not managing it and nearly 17% don't even know they have it. Previous s...
. Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, or measuring blood pressure at regular intervals throughout the day, is increasingly important in managing patients with this condition because of the possibility of a white-coat effect (when an individual only has high blood pressure at the physician's office...