What Doctors Don't Tell YouDrugs for high blood pressure may be overprescribed, if the results of a review of the latest way of measuring hypertension are anything to go by. ...
GPs are overdiagnosing and overtreating hypertension in normal patients because of defective testing equipment, according to a report in GP magazine (4 January 1993). ...
The high incidence of hypertension high blood pressure in the West and its virtual absence in many developing countries has been attributed to a number of bad Western dietary habits. As soon as th ...
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The newer anti hypertensive drugs, such as the ACE inhibitor, do not produce significantly better results than older style heart drugs, especially in the elderly, according to new research. ...
Despite the massive assault of medicine, cases of hypertension (high blood pressure) just aren't going down. A 36 year follow up by the Framingham study reveals that one in four Americans has high ...
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We now move on to the reader whose 82-year-old father was put on a colourful cocktail of pills for his gout and hypertension. The man has now become very breathless and is suffering night cramps. The reader wanted to know if drugs were the cause of...
Vitamin C can help to speed wound healing and lower hypertension, according to two new studies. ...
Pregnant women are less likely to suffer pre eclampsia very high blood pressure if the father of the child is also a regular lover. ...
