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Dec 6th, 2008
While doctors are recommended to start with a diuretic-based strategy to control patients’ high blood pressure, an international blood pressure study shows a different single-pill drug combination is more effective at preventing heart-related events such as heart attacks and strokes.
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Dec 5th, 2008
Combining your blood pressure medication into one pill daily may be the safest way to keep your blood pressure under control, according to a new study. Diuretics or fluid pills are prescribed to many patients to lower blood pressure.
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Dec 2nd, 2008
If you are diabetic then one thing you will need to keep track of is your salt intake. Salt helps contribute to high blood pressure which is one of the complications of diabetes, so it is in your interests to monitor your salt intake when cooking.
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Dec 1st, 2008
The use of low-cost, generic diuretics to treat high blood pressure did not increase significantly following a 2002 study that found the drugs were more effective at treating hypertension than newer drugs that were up to 20 times more expensive.
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Nov 12th, 2008
Researchers have found that low potassium levels correlate with high blood pressure, regardless of salt intake or cardiovascular risk factors, and the association is stronger among blacks.
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Nov 9th, 2008
As a risk factor for high blood pressure, low levels of potassium in the diet may be as important as high levels of sodium - especially among African Americans, according to research being presented at the American Society of Nephrology's 41st Annual Meeting and Scientific Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Nov 9th, 2008
Several factors, such as older age and high weight gain, are known risk factors for pre-eclampsia and other pregnancy-related blood pressure disorders. Now a new report suggests that social factors - including living in a rural county - may also increase the risk of preeclampsia and pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH)
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Oct 31st, 2008
Pay for performance has substantially improved blood pressure monitoring and control in England, and the difference in monitoring levels between the most and least deprived areas has all but disappeared.
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Oct 24th, 2008
FDA has approved Addrenex Pharmaceuticals' Investigational New Drug Application (IND) for ADX415, a novel hypertension drug.
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Oct 17th, 2008
To some people, listening to music may just be a hobby, but to people with high blood pressure (hypertension), it could be a way to help them lower their blood pressure.
