High Blood Pressure Expert Larry Weinrauch shares High Blood Pressure management news and commentary at HighBloodPressureConnection.com. The HealthCentral Network, Inc. (www.HealthCentral.com) is one of the top health destinations on the Web, with more than 35 condition-specific, wellness and general health Web properties. http://www.healthcentral.com/high-blood-pressure/c/6508 http://www.healthcentral.com/high-blood-pressure/c/6508/rss self application/xml en-us 15 120 19 http://www.healthcentral.com/images/hc_logo_sm.gif http://www.healthcentral.com/high-blood-pressure/c/6508 http://www.healthcentral.com/high-blood-pressure/c/6508/18017/enjoy Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:04:00 -0500 Larry Weinrauch Some people don't really enjoy the taste of their food. They like cleaning their curtains and clothing more than other people do. Some people even enjoy the little holes that the ash burns on their trousers. Perhaps you don't mind if someone flicks their ashes into the wind and they get into your eye. Maybe you even enjoy going into a smoke filled room or having that first puff of the day because it enables you to breathe better, but... http://www.healthcentral.com/high-blood-pressure/c/6508/18017/enjoy http://www.healthcentral.com/high-blood-pressure/c/6508/18018/questio Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:00:00 -0500 Larry Weinrauch 1. I can't get my blood pressure under control, why?  2. I am taking Cozaar for high blood pressure. Some days my readings aren't too bad but there are days with very bad readings. I am taking Hawthorn and yesterday my blood pressure was very high, so I decided to take a table (sic) of Potassium, and today I repeated. I wonder if the intake of Potassium will interact with the Cozaar.  Answer: There are several... http://www.healthcentral.com/high-blood-pressure/c/6508/18018/questio http://www.healthcentral.com/high-blood-pressure/c/6508/17789/real Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:21:00 -0500 Larry Weinrauch A very nice patient of mine died this summer. This former teamster spent most of his life enjoying his "golden brew" though he had had to cut back in recent years after recurrent episodes of alcohol related pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas). These episodes had damaged his pancreas (the organ that makes insulin) enough to give him diabetes by the time that he was 45 years old, though that never stopped him from enjoying his... http://www.healthcentral.com/high-blood-pressure/c/6508/17789/real http://www.healthcentral.com/high-blood-pressure/c/6508/17010/occur Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:00:00 -0500 Larry Weinrauch Most of us have had the experience of seeing a tire or inner tube that has a bulge in its side or a balloon that has a weak spot and doesn't fill normally. Some of us have also had the experience of what can happen when the tire, inner tube or balloon that is weakened by one of these "blebs" loses air and needs to be replaced. In the body an area of blood vessel weakness can have the same effect. In this case, instead of air... http://www.healthcentral.com/high-blood-pressure/c/6508/17010/occur http://www.healthcentral.com/high-blood-pressure/c/6508/15784/high Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:20:00 -0400 Larry Weinrauch I was diagnosed with Diabetes Type II in 1999. Prior to that date my blood pressure readings were averaging 147/91. In January of 2000 my doctor put me on Lipitor. Could my HBP be considered a secondary condition that is likely to be caused in part and/or aggravated by the diabetes mellitus?   Multiple readers have noted that they have one combination or another of hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus and hyperlipidemia... http://www.healthcentral.com/high-blood-pressure/c/6508/15784/high http://www.healthcentral.com/high-blood-pressure/c/6508/15079/signs Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:09:00 -0400 Larry Weinrauch A stroke is a "brain attack" that doctors name "cerebro" (brain) "vascular" (blood vessel) "accident" (CVA). It occurs either because a blood vessel supplying a portion of the brain bursts causing bleeding within the brain (hemorrhage) or becomes blocked starving a portion of the brain of oxygen. Blood vessels can become blocked by sediment building up in them ("sediment" collects to form a... http://www.healthcentral.com/high-blood-pressure/c/6508/15079/signs