(BBC News) — Measuring blood pressure in both arms should be routine because the difference between left and right arm could indicate underlying health problems, says a study review.
The Lancet research found that a large difference could mean an increased risk...
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(WebMD) — Lowering your blood pressure may a major factor behind the many health benefits of tea.
A new study shows that people who drank three cups of black tea a day lowered their blood pressure levels by an average of 2 to 3...
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(Reuters Health) — Many older adults like to take a dip a pool, and now a small study suggests it can be good for their blood pressure.
Researchers found that among 43 older men and women, those who started swimming a few times a week...
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(PRNewswire) — A new health behavior intervention has been spelling success for North Carolina patients with diabetes and hypertension. The intervention, Cholesterol, Hypertension and Glucose Education, or CHANGE, was piloted in a study led by principal investigator Hayden Bosworth, PhD, at...
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(WebMD) — Having high blood pressure in middle age is a major risk factor for developing atrial fibrillation later in life, and now new research links high-normal-range blood pressure with an increase in risk.
More than 2 million mostly older Americans have the heart rhythm...
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In this analysis, Datamonitor estimates that there were a total of 210 million cases of hypertension in 2010 in the seven major markets (the US, Japan, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK). Prevalence rates for hypertension are expected to...
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(Scientific American) — People with high blood pressure are often told to watch the salt. And it’s long been thought that hypertension related to excess salt is caused by the salt increasing the volume of the blood. Which in turn puts added...
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(HealthDay News) — Waiting up to a year to treat high blood pressure in a person with diabetes is probably not harmful, but waiting many years to get blood pressure under control could result in serious complications, new research indicates.
In the study, published...
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(Royal Gazette) — There is a higher incidence of high blood pressure in blacks and it cannot be wholly attributed to cultural differences.
Ideas that blacks eat more fried food and suffer more stress than their white counterparts are inaccurate, but it is true...
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(Daily Mail) — An operation that ‘hot-wires’ the kidneys could be the key to reducing high blood pressure in hard-to-treat patients.
Twenty UK patients with high blood pressure (hypertension) who had not responded to drugs have been helped by the minimally invasive technique.
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