Blood pressure
"Take two cats and call me in the morning" - Daily News
?Take two cats and call me in the morning,? said my sister. One might think that was a crazy thing to say, but it was right on the money. I?d had a very upsetting day and my blood pressure was so far off the charts, I should have had a stroke ... (more...)
I'm only 23, and I'm already thinking about high blood pressure - Bellevue Leader
Many of my colleagues around the office as well as a few readers I have talked to on the street are aware by now that there is a subject in my life right now that I'm a little uneasy about: my blood pressure. A while back at the La Vista Health Fair ... (more...)
High Blood Pressure: Over 50 Percent Of People With The Condition Are ... - Medical News Today
More than half of people diagnosed with high blood pressure do not have it under control and many more go undiagnosed, according to research carried out at the University of Warwick. Professor Franco Cappuccio from Warwick Medical School at the ... (more...)
Viagra keeping 2-year-old boy alive! - New Kerala
Calvin Muteesa, who's believed to be Britain's youngest regular Viagra user, was first prescribed the remedy when he was just three months old. Now, he is having taken the drug - for up to six times a day - for the past 30 months. Calvin suffers from ... (more...)
Pets deserve pats for household health - Anchorage Daily News
While many industries are feeling the pain of the current economic crisis, the pet industry is booming. Americans spent $41 billion dollars on their pets last year, and that figure is expected to grow by 5 percent this coming year, according to the ... (more...)
Pregnancy and fertility following bariatric surgery - News-Medical.Net
Women who undergo weight-loss surgery, known as bariatric surgery, and later become pregnant after losing weight may be at lower risk for pregnancy-related diabetes and high blood pressure - complications that can seriously affect the mother or her ... (more...)
Sleep, heart attack link is detected - Bismarck Tribune
A recent study shows a link between sleep and heart attack risk. The New England Journal of Medicine reported on a study that looked at the effect of daylight-savings time on heart attack risk the week following the time changes. It reported fewer ... (more...)
Naperville hospital named to top 100 - Herald News
NAPERVILLE -- For the second time, Edward Hospital in Naperville has been named one of the nation's top 100 hospitals for cardiovascular care by Thomson Reuters. Edward was named to the same list in 2006. Edward is one of three hospitals in the ... (more...)
Diuretic Reduces Risk For A Type Of Heart Failure That Is More Common ... - Science Daily
ScienceDaily (Nov. 21, 2008) ? New research by The University of Texas School of Public Health shows that a medication for high blood pressure called a diuretic or water pill is particularly effective at reducing the risk for a type of heart ... (more...)
The You Docs Tip of the Day: The danger you don't know about - Idaho Statesman
On the edge. It's an exciting place to be if you have a parachute. But about a quarter of U.S. adults are living on that precipitous spot - without the safety of that silk-filled backpack. They have prehypertension; that's when blood pressure numbers ... (more...)