Blood pressure

How to Test Your Blood Pressure at Home Problem Background In this time and age, lifestyle diseases and health conditions are a bigger menace than the untreatable and unpreventable ailments the world knows. Unfortunately, these conditions, which people have attracted to themselves is causing massive deaths of individuals worldwide. Most of these are brought about by people’s eating habits, drug abuse, and laziness. More precisely, diseases such as arthritis, cancer, diabetes, obesity, depression…

High Blood Pressure The measure of the force of the blood pushing against the walls of the arteris is known as blood pressure. When this number rises to 140/90 or greater, high blood pressure is diagnosed. High blood pressure forces the heart to work harder than it should, damages the arteries and causes the muscle walls of the heart to stiffen. Eating a diet low in sodium, exercising regularly and taking any prescribed blood pressure medications will help reduce your loved one's blood pressure…

How reliable is the Blood Pressure Monitoring Device With the advancement of technology, small portable blood pressure machines have become widely available. Most of these blood pressure devices cost between 5000 to 7000 naira ($20 and above). There are several types and models of small blood pressure devices available in the market. Over the years there has been a great improvement in these products and nowadays you can purchase blood pressure machines with cuffs that are easy to put around the…

The article details several guidelines in which one can use to lower their blood pressure as provided by the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology. These guidelines include avoiding the use of drugs or supplements that can raise blood pressure, exercising and dieting, as well as taking diuretics, ACE inhibitors, dihydropyridine calcium channel blockers, angiotensin II receptor blockers. The article further provides questions for patients that emanate from these new…

Blood Pressure Readings Taking vital signs are very important. A patient’s health can be revealed through monitoring specific vital signs. Pain, anxiety, sickness, and excitement are a few things that can be told by taking your patient’s blood pressure. Here is how you can properly take blood pressure readings and help your patient get back to good health. Preparations Before you began , be sure to have all of your tools visible and ready to use. Wash your hands thoroughly. Be sure that your…

Population and Health Issue High blood pressure according to MayoClinic is a common condition in which long-term force of the blood against your artery walls is high enough that it may eventually cause health problems, such has heart disease ( www.mayoclinic.org). However, hypertension commonly know has high blood pressure is much more common in the African American community. There was a study done in an urban ambulatory internal medicine clinic in southeast Michigan. Enrolled in the study…

had called and was very worried about her high blood pressure; she was very concerned about trying everything that typically works and was not seeing any results. She used to drink coffee to lower her blood pressure, or she would take a natural/herbal remedy and that would work. As a last resort, she went to her pharmacist and got back on some sort of high blood pressure medication. She had been on this medication for several days and her blood pressure was still over 200. At this point my…

influence blood pressure and the other type can negatively influence blood pressure. A more detailed comparison will now be made between beneficial and harmful humour. Harmful humour can be sarcastic or aggressive, e.g., “Madame, I’d like to drink to your beauty…So you can imagine how hard up I am for a drink!” (Groucho Marx) Harmful humour can also be self-deprecating (ingratiating oneself), e.g., “My father had an ulcer for a long time, but he finally got rid of it…I left home.” (Alan Feiman)…

High Blood Pressure, the disease that causes more than 1,100 deaths per day. High Blood Pressure is when your blood flows through blood vessels at a higher pressure than normal. Also, I am writing about High Blood Pressure because I have recently found out that my dad has been infected with this disease. And the feeling that he could die at any moment worries me, which makes me want to do this research. So I could help him stabilize his blood pressure and prevent the disease later on. In the…

A Comparative Study of Body Composition and Blood Pressure between Teaching and Non-Teaching Staff of Dibrugarh University Dr. Mantu Baro, Associate Professor Centre for studies in Physical Education and Sports Dibrugarh University, Assam Abstract: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the differences of body composition and blood pressure between the teaching and non-teaching male staff of the Dibrugarh University. The data pertaining to the study was collected from 30 teaching…