Prevent High Blood Pressure Blog Wednesday, November 12, 2008 Well-known Blood-pressure Medicine fails in study A well-known blood-pressure medicine promoted by Bristol-Myers Squibb Corp. and Sanofi-Aventis SA failed in a huge study to show a profit among patients with a ordinary and hard-to-treat form of heart failure. Researchers stated the results displayed the want for more facts about mechanisms following the disease that accounts for 500,000 hospital admissions yearly in the U.S. -- and that includes both physically weakening and an significant driver of health-care costs. Patients in the revise reveal about half of the five million Americans diagnosed are with heart failure. Such patients as well have hearts with usual pumping capacity, but though are at high risk of death and cardiovascular-related hospital admissions. posted by sarah @ 12:42 AM permanent link   | Post a Comment | 0 comments  Bookmark & Share Prevent High Blood Pressure Blog Thursday, October 23, 2008 Now chicken soup for high blood pressure Washington (IANS): Chicken soup, a trendy home medicine for common cold, might now have a role in combating high blood pressure, according to a Japanese study. Ai Saiga of Nippon Meat Packers and colleagues cited previous studies signifying that chicken breast contains collagen proteins with effects similar to ACE inhibitors, mainstay medications for treating high blood pressure. But chicken breast as well has such small amounts of the proteins, which it could not be used to increase food and medical products for high blood pressure. Chicken legs and feet, which are regularly redundant as waste products in the US and are key soup elements elsewhere, emerge to be a improved source, according to a let go of American Chemical Society (ACS). Given to rats used to model human high blood pressure, the proteins made an important and extended decrease in blood pressure, the researchers stated. The research is planned for publication in the Oct 22 issue of ACS' biweekly Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. posted by sarah @ 7:10 AM permanent link   | Post a Comment | 0 comments  Bookmark & Share Prevent High Blood Pressure Blog Tuesday, October 21, 2008 Heart Disease: The Number One Assassin in America start in Childhood Heart ailment is the number one assassin in america of both man and women nowadays. It is dreadful to study that this lethal disease threatens our kids as well and can even start in the womb if the mother’s go on a diet is inadequate through her pregnancy. Atherosclerosis is a situation that causes narrowing, clogging along with stiffening of the artery, due to deposition of portly and plaque on the arterial ramparts which finally blocks the gush of blood to the heart also other major organs. This lead to a plethora of harms a few as high cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart attack, stroke and diabetes. Nearly all of us presume these are mature problems and that high blood pressure and high cholesterol generally happen merely to adults, but research is now illuminating a few sad statistics; one third of American kids age two throughout the teenage years have high cholesterol in addition to many babies have high blood pressure. posted by sarah @ 6:10 AM permanent link   | Post a Comment | 0 comments  Bookmark & Share Prevent High Blood Pressure Blog Monday, October 6, 2008 High blood pressure should be monitored at home If you anybody around that is suffering from high blood pressure, then you should monitor it at home between visits to the doctor. One of the basic causes for high blood pressure is sleep disorder that can further lead to, weight gain, memory problems and other health problems. Why check at home? - It's recognized that the stress of visiting the doctor could cause it to spike, a phenomenon known as ''white-coat hypertension.'' • Use an automatic monitor with a cuff, which fits around your arm and keeps track of readings. • Check your high blood pressure once in the morning and then once at night for a week. After that, just check it one or two days a month. posted by sarah @ 10:31 PM permanent link   | Post a Comment | 0 comments  Bookmark & Share Prevent High Blood Pressure Blog Wednesday, August 27, 2008 Olive leaf can cure hypertension A new report suggests that the consumption of olive leaf extracts helps to tackle high blood pressure. The study which was published in Phytotherapy Research today states the reports of the tests done on 20 twins who were suffering from high blood pressure. Taking 1000 mg of a specific olive leaf can bring down cholesterol as well as low blood pressure in patients with mild hypertension. Experiments on rats have been previously done and they indicate the same result that is consumption of olive leaf is one of the ways to lower the blood pressure. To verify whether the same is true with human beings, a pilot trial was conducted in Switzerland on 20 identical twins affected by hypertension. "The study confirmed that olive leaf extract EFLA®943 has antihypertensive properties in humans," says one of the co-authors, Cem Aydogan, General Manager, Frutarom Health. "This works showed that taking a 1000mg dose has substantial effects in people with borderline hypertension," says Aydogan. posted by sarah @ 6:26 AM permanent link   | Post a Comment | 0 comments  Bookmark & Share Prevent High Blood Pressure Blog Thursday, August 14, 2008 Intake of garlic can lower your BP A new research suggests that a dose of garlic on a daily basis can help in bringing the high blood pressure down. The magical plant can be as effective as any drugs, the research suggests. The figures suggest that this high blood pressure also known as hypertension is the cause of about 40% of 150000 strokes and about ten thousands heart attacks. However the latest research suggests that the patient’s blood pressure declined after the intake of garlic on daily basis for four – five months. In some cases the drop was almost as similar as seen from the intake of drugs like bets- blockers and ace inhibitors. The researchers were surprised at the results shown by the intake of garlic for high blood pressure cure. However hey are not sure whether it would work same in the long term like the pills. You can control the high blood pressure by less intake of salt, losing weight and getting fit. posted by sarah @ 5:12 AM permanent link   | Post a Comment | 0 comments  Bookmark & Share

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