What Doctors Don't Tell YouNone of the 66 pharmaceutical drugs currently licensed as treatment for high blood pressure, or hypertension, are any better than 'water pills', according to a new breakthrough study.
White-coat hypertension, where a patient’s fear of the doctor causes his blood pressure to rise higher than it usually is, seems to occur at home as well as in the doctor’s office,
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When a single drug doesn’t sort out a health issue, doctors tend to throw two at the problem. So medicine came up with the idea of hypertensive drug ‘teams’. A firm favourite is a thiazide diuretic (the oldest mainstay of hypertension treatment)...
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Q I have read a lot about hypertension, but not much about hypotension, which my friend suffers from. Having low blood pressure makes her very tired and occasionally makes her faint. What do you advise? - J.S. McMillan, Bristol A Hypotension, or low...
Q An elderly colleague, aged 82, is experiencing symptoms that he feels may be attributable to his medication for high blood pressure. His daily regime is levothyroxine (150 mcg), aspirin (150 mcg), nifedipine (30 mg), alfuzocin (400 mcg) and...
