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How to Managing High Blood Pressure

If you’ve been diagnosed with high blood pressure, your health care provider will work with you to develop a treatment plan that’s right for you. Depending on the cause of your high blood pressure, your treatment plan may include lifestyle changes, medication or a combination of both. Lifestyle Changes When high blood pressure is caused [...]

Introduction: Blood pressure is measured in millimeters of mercury (mm Hg) and it has two components: systolic pressure (SBP), the higher number; and diastolic pressure (DBP), the lower number. SBP represents the pressure that the heart must generate to pump blood to the rest of the body, while DBP refers to the pressure needed to [...]

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“Heart disease is caused by 6 major factors – a high blood cholesterol level, high blood pressure, stress, smoking, obesity and lack of physical exercise. It is a result of our lifestyle and genetic inheritance. Since we can’t change our genes it’s up to us to change our lifestyles! High Blood Cholesterol High levels of [...]

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