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22nd September 2009
Some of the drugs listed below can affect certain functions of the body, resulting in bad side effects. However, drugs that lower blood pressure have proven effective over the years. The benefits of using them far outweigh the risk of side effects. Most p... Read >
Author: wbdoyle22nd September 2009
One of the more common treatments for high blood pressure are ACE inhibitors. When your kidneys detect low blood pressure, they release an enzyme called renin, which stimulates the formation of a protein called angiotensin I. Angiotensin I is then convert... Read >
Author: wbdoyle18th September 2009
Heart Failure treatment in India
Heart failure, also known as congestive cardiac failure, is a condition in which the heart is not able to pump the blood the way it should. In some cases the heart can’t fill with enough blood. In other cases the he... Read >
Author: WeCareIndia17th September 2009
Are you looking for high blood pressure remedies? I have heard many reviews about the effects of natural remedies on hypertension, but the question is will it work over prescribed drugs?
Prescribed Drugs
When it comes to prescribed drugs – there are... Read >
Author: Cristina Chase17th September 2009
Most people are aware of the risks posed by diabetes and high blood pressure, but few may realize the relationship between the two. It is evident that a person with diabetes is twice likely to develop high blood pressure than a person without diabetes. If... Read >
Author: Rahim Siddiqi16th September 2009
Most people are aware of the risks posed by diabetes and high blood pressure, but few may realize the relationship between the two. It is evident that a person with diabetes is twice likely to develop high blood pressure than a person without diabetes. If... Read >
Author: anil10th March 2009
Calcium channel blockers (CCBs) are used most commonly to treat high blood pressure, angina, hypertension, narrowed arteries, Raynaud's syndrome, cardiomyopathy and arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat). However, they are also prescribed for subarachnoid hemor... Read >
Author: MIKE SELVON23rd January 2009
Have you tried changing your lifestyle to help your blood pressure only to find it isn't helping very much? Sometimes lifestyle changes alone aren't as effective as when combined with blood pressure medication.
There are many different kinds of blood ... Read >
Author: Jeremiah Slivka 17th January 2009
Many individuals are put on medications to control their high blood pressure. Depending greatly on the severity of the blood pressure you might be able to discontinue using the medications with some modifications to your lifestyle and diet.
Many docto... Read >
Author: Alvin Hopkinson08th January 2009
Individuals with diabetes have a higher mortality risk of about 60%. However, the risks jump drastically, approximately 3 times higher in those individuals that have type 2 diabetes and hypertension.
Among the health related concerns are retinopathy, ... Read >
Author: Alvin Hopkinson29th December 2008
Methyldopa (Aldomet)
In the body, methyldopa is broken down to its metabolite (alpha-methylnorepinephrine) which acts on the areas of the brain known to cause vasodilatation. Besides this central action, a peripheral anti-hypertensive action is also po... Read >
Author: Alien17th December 2008
Kidney damage starts long ahead of you become aware of any symptoms. An early indication of kidney damage is when your kidneys seep out small amounts of a protein called albumin into the urine. However, the simply way to identify regarding this seepage is... Read >
Author: Mc Raflesia08th December 2008
Congestive heart failure in dogs is a very serious condition. It is caused by an abnormality in the structure of function of the heart. There are two forms of this disease.
Forms
In one form of heart failure, the walls of the chambers in the heart... Read >
Author: D Swain02nd December 2008
A truck driver believed to have been on medication caused a chain of mini accidents on northbound Highway 1 in San Jose. The 56-year-old motorist initially clipped a white sedan, and then kept driving, hitting several signs on the way. He eventually cam... Read >
Author: Robert Reeves29th November 2008
Angina is a form of heart disease where the blood flow to the heart is restricted by a blockage in one or more of the arteries that carry blood into the heart. Usually, the first sign Angina is a pain in the chest, not unlike a squeezing or pressing sensa... Read >
Author: TomSmith26th November 2008
Canine heart disease is a very common condition. It is a very serious condition that usually proves to be fatal unless it is detected very early.
Types
There are two types of canine heart disease. One type occurs when the heart valves lose their abi... Read >
Author: D Swain24th November 2008
Use of two to three drugs is common in the treatment of high BP and fixed dose combinations are available. Some commonly used combinations are given in the table below.
Factors Influencing the Treatment of Hypertension
Several factors may be respon... Read >
Author: Alien20th November 2008
Coughing is an important way to keep your throat and airways clear. Coughing is an action the body takes to get rid of burdens that are irritating the air passages. In the more advanced stages, it's marked by the symptom that gives the disease its name: a... Read >
Author: stbotanica18th November 2008
It is estimated that no less than 600 million people worldwide are affected by hypertension. Described as a ‘silent killer’ hypertension causes 5 million premature deaths each year (World Health Organisation) and the numbers are rising.
There are ... Read >
Author: C. Gray Flynn04th November 2008
High blood pressure (HBP) or hypertension means high pressure (tension) in the arteries. Arteries are vessels that carry blood from the pumping heart to all the tissues and organs of the body. High blood pressure does not mean excessive emotional tension,... Read >
Author: peterhutch30th October 2008
I read some interesting research lately that I want to share related to chicken and blood pressure.We know that blood pressure is a significant risk fact for heart disease and stroke. It's estimated that around 1 billion people worldwide live with high bl... Read >
Author: Lisa Nelson RD14th October 2008
A lot of people with high blood pressure do not know they have it. It is because it usually doesn't have symptoms and you can have it even if you're feeling good. Especially if you are already getting older, you need to know the facts about high blood pre... Read >
Author: AanaSmith24th September 2008
Infectious myocarditis is a disease in the muscles of the heart, most commonly caused by the Coxsackievirus that follows upon a respiratory or viral disease. Myocarditis may be a snag during or after diverse viral, bacterial, or parasitic infectious disea... Read >
Author: Juliet Cohen15th September 2008
Ace Inhibitors Work to Lower Blood Pressure
There are many different types of medications that are suitable for the treatment of high blood pressure and heart disease. Not all are effective and not all of them work in the same way. An Ace inhibitor is ... Read >
Author: Samuel09th September 2008
Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) is a serious disease that affects the kidneys and blood clotting system. Hemolytic-uremic syndrome is characterized by the triad of microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, and acute renal failure. It is a rare ... Read >
Author: Juliet Cohen25th August 2008
High blood pressure leads to various serious health problems like stroke, heart attack, heart failure, kidney and eye problems as well as it also leads to memory loss. If all this is taken lightly, it can be fatal. To avoid all these problems a person suf... Read >
Author: Article Manager18th July 2008
High blood pressure, or hypertension, is often characterized as the silent killer–and for good reason. Although it affects an estimated one in five North Americans, many people don’t experience any symptoms. As a result, less than one-quarter of suffe... Read >
Author: Article Manager07th July 2008
What is heart failure?
Heart failure means your heart muscle does not pump as much blood as your body needs. Failure does not mean that your heart has stopped. It means that your heart is not pumping as well as it should. Congestive heart failure can b... Read >
Author: peterhutch06th July 2008
Acute renal failure (ARF), also known as acute kidney failure or acute kidney injury, is a rapid loss of renal function due to damage to the kidneys, resulting in retention of nitrogenous (urea and creatinine) and non-nitrogenous waste products that are... Read >
Author: peterhutch15th May 2008
Berger disease also known as primary IgA nephropathy and glomerulonephritis. IgA nephropathy is a kidney disorder designated by blood in the urine. It is caused by inflammation of within kidney structures and the deposit of IgA antibodies in kidney tissue... Read >
Author: Juliet Cohen15th May 2008
Berger disease also known as primary IgA nephropathy and glomerulonephritis. IgA nephropathy is a kidney disorder designated by blood in the urine. It is caused by inflammation of within kidney structures and the deposit of IgA antibodies in kidney tissue... Read >
Author: Juliet Cohen14th May 2008
Copyright (c) 2008 Duanphen Singhaphan
Somewhere around 25 million Americans are currently taking high blood pressure drugs of some kind. These medications consist primarily of diuretics, beta-blockers, calcium antagonists, and ACE inhibitors. But they... Read >
Author: Peter John01st May 2008
Introduction :
Hypertension (defined as a blood pressure 140/90 mmHg) is an extremely common comorbid condition in diabetes, affecting 20–60% of patients with diabetes, depending on obesity, ethnicity, and age. In type 2 diabetes, hypertension is oft... Read >
Author: peterhutch25th April 2008
Copyright (c) 2008 Duanphen Singhaphan
Somewhere around 25 million Americans are currently taking high blood pressure drugs of some kind. These medications consist primarily of diuretics, beta-blockers, calcium antagonists, and ACE inhibitors. But they... Read >
Author: Peter John25th April 2008
There are eight common medications used to treat high blood pressure. While many people dealing with hypertension will possibly be prescribed a combination of a variety of these medications, the amount of medication needed depends greatly on the type and ... Read >
Author: Alvin Hopkinson25th April 2008
Hypertension, also referred to as the “silent killer” is often the symptom of some other malfunction in your body. Although there are actual natural alternatives and/or home remedies to lower blood pressure, physicians use medications to combat the ... Read >
Author: Alvin Hopkinson02nd April 2008
The kidneys are a pair of organs located just behind the stomach. Your kidneys filter wastes from your blood and regulate other functions of your body. They also make hormones that keep your bones strong and your blood healthy. The kidneys stop working wh... Read >
Author: Juliet Cohen27th March 2008
ACE inhibitors stop the production of a hormone called angiotensin II that makes the blood vessels narrow. As a result, the vessels expand, improving blood flow. Tension in the circulation is also lowered by the kidneys filtering more fluid from the blood... Read >
Author: peterhutch27th March 2008
ACE inhibitors stop the production of a hormone called angiotensin II that makes the blood vessels narrow. As a result, the vessels expand, improving blood flow. Tension in the circulation is also lowered by the kidneys filtering more fluid from the blo... Read >
Author: peterhutch27th March 2008
ACE inhibitors stop the production of a hormone called angiotensin II that makes the blood vessels narrow. As a result, the vessels expand, improving blood flow. Tension in the circulation is also lowered by the kidneys filtering more fluid from the blo... Read >
Author: peterhutch11th March 2008
Raise your hand if you know someone taking drugs to lower their blood pressure. Well. That's about 100%. We ALL know someone doing that. And, I guess we all know why. "Unresolved" chronic high blood pressure can supposedly cause stroke, congestive heart f... Read >
Author: Tim Langley, D.C.22nd January 2008
Hypertension is one of the most common worldwide diseases afflicting humans. Hypertension also known as high blood pressure. Blood pressure is the force of blood pushing against blood vessel walls. The heart pumps blood into the arteries (blood vessels), ... Read >
Author: Juliet Cohen05th November 2007
Rosacea is a common but often misunderstood condition that is estimated to affect over 45 million people worldwide. It affects white-skinned people of mostly north-western European descent, and has been nicknamed the 'curse of the Celts' by some in Irelan... Read >
Author: Alien11th October 2007
Coughing is an action the body takes to get rid of substances that are irritating the air passages. oughs can be either acute or chronic. Acute coughs begin suddenly and usually last no more than 2 to 3 weeks. Acute coughs are the kind you most often get ... Read >
Author: Juliet Cohen02nd October 2007
Coughing is an important way to keep your throat and airways clear. Coughing is an action the body takes to get rid of burden that are irritating the air passages. In the more advanced stages, it's marked by the symptom that gives the disease its name: a ... Read >
Author: Juliet Cohen01st October 2007
Aortic valve regurgitation or aortic regurgitation is a condition that occurs when your heart's aortic valve doesn't close tightly. From the aorta, oxygen-rich blood flows into the branching arteries and through the body to feed the cells. The body doesn'... Read >
Author: Juliet Cohen19th July 2007
Coreg is a prescription drug used in addition to diuretics, ACE inhibitors and digitalis for the treatment of mild to severe ischemic or cardiomyopathic heart failure. Patients who have passed through an acute myocardial infarction and have only partial ... Read >
Author: rohit13th July 2007
You or a loved one suffers from the 'silent killer' of High Blood Pressure or Hypertension. Unfortunately, you are dealing with a very deadly disease that kills almost 60,000 Americans every year. Fortunately, you know that you (or a loved one) have Hig... Read >
Author: barpubl01st July 2007
True or False? You need prescription medication to lower high blood pressure? False!
However, most people believe you need to take common high blood pressure (hypertension) prescriptions to combat your high blood pressure. Unfortunately, high blood ... Read >
Author: barpubl26th June 2007
A new study has revealed that the new Medicare Part D plan is making it exceedingly hard for beneficiaries to know exactly what medications are covered under the plan. This is due to the more than 1,800 different private health plans now participating in... Read >
Author: Cathlene Martinez06th May 2007
A new study found that people who took enhanced medicine and healthcare treatment have survived from heart attacks. This study was published in the American Medical Association, and noted that the hospitals and clinics follow confirmed guidelines for trea... Read >
Author: Abdulmajeed Alkatheeri06th February 2007
It's a cough that comes on unexpectedly, and just won't go away. This persistent cough can wake you up in the middle of the night and interrupt your meals with repeated hacking. Cough medicines and over-the-counter cough remedies bring little relief, and ... Read >
Author: George McKenzie19th January 2007
A good diet, a healthy life style and a lot of exercise are one of the best ways to keep diabetes under control and even to prevent it. But one must not forget the medications every diabetic needs to take. Although there are several drugs every diabetic u... Read >
Author: groshan fabiola04th January 2007
Hypertension can lead to a number of complications including stroke, heart failure, kidney failure, and heart attack. Therefore, it is important that we understand how it is developed and how to treat it.
5 percent of the hypertensive patients may be c... Read >
Author: Ng Peng Hock02nd January 2007
Diabetes causes damage to the kidneys by causing harm to the small blood vessels that make the kidneys filters. If the filters get really damaged then chronic kidney disease develops. This is an incurable disease but it can be controlled. An early treatme... Read >
Author: groshan fabiola25th December 2006
Are you aware that about 40 percent of Asian diabetic patients with hypertension eventually develop kidney disease, 10 percent of these patients will require dialysis within 10 years of diagnosis? And, only 25 percent of these dialysis patients will survi... Read >
Author: Ng Peng Hock24th November 2006
It is not easy to diagnose CHD in women who develop chest pain more often than men. The chances for these chest pains to progress to heart attack are rare. In one study, half of the women undergoing coronary angiography did not have significant heart arte... Read >
Author: Ng Peng Hock18th November 2006
Having a high blood pressure puts you at great risk to develop heart diseases or even to have a heart-attack. Unfortunately high blood pressure affects millions of people and the number of patients keeps increasing. It does not have any specific symptoms,... Read >
Author: groshan fabiola08th November 2006
High blood pressure happens to be a widespread disease among people all around the world but we, Americans due to increased level of cholesterol, are more prone to this malady that often results in severe complications. There could be various reasons for ... Read >
Author: Kanishk manchanda02nd October 2006
Most people are aware of the risks posed by diabetes and high blood pressure, but few may realize the relationship between the two. It is evident that a person with diabetes is twice likely to develop high blood pressure than a person without diabetes. If... Read >
Author: Ng Peng Hock26th June 2006
Has high blood pressure been bugging you for numerous years? Thousands of people feel the same way. It is in the top ten major causes of death everywhere. Supported studies, HBP will have a 60% growth by year 2025 where it will be highest in the 3rd w... Read >
Author: james ellison18th June 2006
Some of the drugs listed below can affect certain functions of the body, resulting in bad side effects. However, drugs that lower blood pressure have proven effective over the years. The benefits of using them far outweigh the risk of side effects. Most p... Read >
Author: Armughan Riaz08th October 2005
The treatment for lowering the blood pressure is usually recommend by physicians for patients with a blood pressure of above 160/95mmHg. For those with a blood pressure immediately bellow these values it is taking into account age, sex or other individual... Read >
Author: groshan fabiola
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