Heart Health

Improve Your Communication With Your Cardiologist

Feb 26, 2018 · · Heart Health
You know how important it is to understand your doctor’s explanations of medical conditions, test results, and other information about your health—but when it comes to heart health, the terminology can leave you scratching your head. A cardiologist’s vocabulary is filled with acronyms such as CABG, STEMI, CAD, EKG, and … Read More

9. Conclusion

Feb 20, 2018 · · Heart Health
As you’ve no doubt gleaned from reading this special report, there’s a lot to know about managing your blood pressure. You’ve learned about what blood pressure is, how your body controls your blood pressure, and the array of factors that increase your risk of hypertension. You’ve read about the harms … Read More

8. Treating Hypertension

Feb 20, 2018 · · Heart Health
Usually, a diagnosis of hypertension comes with a prescription for a blood-pressure-lowering, or antihypertensive, medication. Eventually, many people with hypertension require two or more drugs to control their blood pressure. You and your doctor have plenty of blood-pressure-lowering medications to choose from. Each type of drug works somewhat differently has … Read More

6. How Low Should Your Blood Pressure Go?

Feb 20, 2018 · · Heart Health
Your Social Security number. Your telephone number. Your bank account balance. The numbers on a winning lottery ticket. Your life is full of numbers, and they all have significance. When it comes to the health of your heart, blood vessels, kidneys and other parts of your body, the numbers 140/90 … Read More

5. Blood Pressure Diagnosis, Monitoring

Feb 20, 2018 · · Heart Health
About 75 million people in the United States have high blood pressure, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). And, only slightly more than half of people with hypertension have their blood pressure under control, the CDC notes. Up until about age 45, hypertension occurs more often … Read More

4. The Harms of High Blood Pressure

Feb 20, 2018 · · Heart Health
There’s a good reason why high blood pressure is called the “silent killer.” Yet, while hypertension remains insidious, it is stealthily damaging your arteries, and also the organs and other tissues that rely on the blood that these vessels deliver to them. Damage to Your Arteries Atherosclerosis Hypertension contributes to … Read More

2. Multiple Forms of Hypertension

Feb 20, 2018 · · Heart Health
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly one out of every three American adults has high blood pressure, and nearly one in three has prehypertension. And, among people with high blood pressure, only about half have it under control. “This finding is concerning because we … Read More

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