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Health Encyclopedia: High Blood Pressure Highlights

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Guidelines for Preventing and Treating High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)

The American Heart Associations 2006 guidelines recommend that people should:

  • Maintain a healthy weight
  • Exercise at least 30 minutes a day
  • Reduce salt intake
  • Increase potassium intake
  • Limit alcohol consumption
  • Choose a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, and low-fat dairy foods. Avoid foods that are high in saturated fat, total fat, and cholesterol. The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet offers these healt...
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Expert & Community Posts

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High Blood Pressure in Children
By Glenn Gandelman, MD, MPH , Health Expert

High blood pressure goes hand-in-hand with obesity. As obesity increases among children in the... Read more »

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High Blood Pressure Diet: Top 4 Foods to Avoid
By Alvin Hopkinson , Health Expert

...people are not aware of the impact that diet has on high blood pressure.  In addition to... Read more »

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The Causes of High Blood Pressure
By Glenn Gandelman, MD, MPH , Health Expert

...would like to review some of the primary causes of High Blood Pressure. In most cases, there is... Read more »

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Don't deny your high blood pressure: Manage it!
By Dr. William Davis , Health Expert

...strange reason, people will vigorously deny having high blood pressure. "I'm nervous." "I fought... Read more »

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Symptoms of High Blood Pressure: 3 Specific Signs to Monitor
By Alvin Hopkinson , Health Expert

...Hopkinson is a leading and avid researcher of various high blood pressure treatments. He runs a... Read more »

Health Guide

Salt and High Blood Pressure
In one word, potassium. Nearly 95% of the high blood pressure in the world is known as primary, essential, or idiopathic hypertension. It is called this because no clear underlying cause can be... Read more »
High Blood Pressure: Symptoms
Hypertension has aptly been called the "silent killer" because it usually produces no symptoms. Untreated hypertension increases slowly over the years. It is important for anyone with risk... Read more »
High Blood Pressure: Risk Factors
During the last decade, the number of Americans with high blood pressure has increased by 30 percent. Over 65 million American adults now have high blood pressure, and this condition... Read more »
High Blood Pressure: Causes
...(primary) when the doctor is unable to identify a specific cause. It is by far the most common type of high blood pressure. The causes of this type are unknown but are likely to be a complex... Read more »
High Blood Pressure: Resources
www.acc.org -- American College of Cardiologywww.americanheart.org -- American Heart Associationwww.ash-us.org -- American Society of Hypertensionwww.nhlbi.nih.gov/hbp -- National Heart,... Read more »

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