Blood Pressure:
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Oct 16th, 2008
More U.S. residents are being treated for high blood pressure in large part because of increasing obesity rates, but there is greater awareness of risk factors for the condition, particularly among white men and blacks.
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Oct 15th, 2008
First, the bad news: More American adults have hypertension (high blood pressure) and prehypertension than ever before. Now, the good news: The percentage of those getting treated for and controlling high blood pressure has also increased.
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Oct 15th, 2008
The number of people with high blood pressure (hypertension) has increased in the past two decades. High blood pressure is a serious and treatable condition and our ability to recognize and control it has had a dramatic improvement on people dying from heart attack over the last forty years.
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Sep 25th, 2008
New York City blacks have the highest rate of high blood pressure of any racial or ethnic group in the city.
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Sep 20th, 2008
Large amounts of salt consumption can cause resistant hypertension, and it becomes almost impossible to lower blood pressure even if the patient takes necessary drugs.
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Sep 19th, 2008
Hypertension takes a serious toll on the kidneys and damaged kidneys worsen hypertension. Take a kidney out of the body and it still knows how to filter toxins from the blood. But all bets are off in the face of high blood pressure.
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Sep 19th, 2008
An audio relaxation program lowered blood pressure more than a Mozart sonata in a group of elderly people with high blood pressure.
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Sep 18th, 2008
Researchers have modified honeybee venom so that it can be used as a tool to study the inner workings of ion channels that control heart rate and the recycling of salt in kidneys.
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Aug 30th, 2008
High blood pressure is a time bomb that can trigger a deadly heart attack or stroke without warning.
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Aug 15th, 2008
Working up a sweat could be the most important lifestyle change people with high blood pressure - or hypertension - can make in their daily lives.
