What Doctors Don't Tell YouOther kinds of drugs can also induce hypertension, even when used to treat a different condition. ... ...
Just as we are advised to watch our blood pressure as we get older, the pressure within our eyes is equally at risk with advancing years. Changes in the ageing eye can lead to less-effective drainage of the clear fluid (aqueous humor) in the eye...
While there are over 20 types of glaucoma, the term is most often used to describe primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG), or chronic glaucoma, the most common form. In this condition, the aqueous humor - the nutrient fluid produced by the ciliary body...
Sometimes advice about prevention is simply wrong. Many of the things we believe are preventative may actually do more harm than good.
HEART DISEASE: Who's really at risk?
They say that most men, if they live long enough, will die with prostate cancer if not from it. It's an inevitable process of ageing, it seems.
Now doctors reckon that hypertension could be a similar problem.
Next, we have the reader who is suffering from insomnia and is currently taking the sleeping drug, Zimovane. What alternatives are there to help him get to sleep more naturally? De-stressing seems to be the key to a successful night of slumber...
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)...
* I had a stroke and was put on aspirin, simvastatin, Calcichew D and bendrofluazide. After reading all I could, I decided that my symptoms - blurred vision, leg cramps, fatigue and the need to pass far more urine than usual
HYPERTENSION: Could it be an inflammatory disorder?
