Hypertension

Hypertension, the correct name for high b lood pressure. Hypertension can lead to serious consequences, and it is therefore important that your BP (B lood pressure) is correctly monitored and treated as necessary. Hypertension is simply put when your arteries are narrowed and the b lood is pushed harder through them. Most patients do not know they have hypertension until they go to their doctor for something else and have their B P read as routine. Normal B P’s are around 120/80, which is ideal. However as you get older this increases and the acceptable norm becomes 160/90 (at around 60 years). In ninety per cent of people the cause for ...  Read the complete review

At age 14 I lost my fit, "healthy" 40 year old father to a heart attack. The doctor said that it was quite unexpected and he would have died even if he had been ill in hospital at the time and not at home. Six years later, my paternal grandfather too died from a heart attack. This time it was following fairly major surgery and it turns out that he had been told of the risks and decided not to tell the family so as not to worry us. At that time I was 20 and considered myself healthy too. While I had a desk job in an office, I played competitive tennis and tried to keep fit. It was therefore a shock to be told that I had hypertension when I ...  Read the complete review

Having found this category item on dooyoo, I feel compelled to tell my story, in the hope that it might help others. I have been suffering from this condition for about 4 years now, and after attending my doctor on numerous occasions, complaining about : High heart rate ( palpitations) sweats, dizziness, tiredness etc. my doctor regularly took my blood pressure over a period of a few weeks, and eventually diagnosed Hypertension. O.K. I thought, I’ll just get some pills and that will be that. What I didn’t know at that time is that hypertension is a very serious medical condition indeed. The problem here is that ...  Read the complete review

High Blood Pressure is the silent killer. You can have it and not even know it. It can cause a stroke. The norm is 140/80..anything higher is considered mild hypertension and above 140/90 is considered high blood pressure. Lots of times if you cut out all salt from your diet, and lose weight and exercise that will lower your blood pressure. But you must be religious about it. And you must not drink alcohol, that can raise blood pressure also. The best type of exercise to do to lower your blood pressure is for example a rowing machine or a recumbent bike. I know people who have lowered their blood presure by doing these machines and diet. Salt increases ...  Read the complete review