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Thursday, October, 29, 2009

How Can Blood Pressure Medicine Cause Leg Swelling?

Pine-bark extract may help blood-pressure drug side effects

October 02, 2008
A new study has found that the pine-bark extract Pycnogenol may help relieve the painful leg swelling caused by some blood-pressure medicines. Researchers looked at 53 patients who took blood-pressure drugs and found that those who took Pycnogenol reduced their ankle and leg swelling by one-third. Read more »

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Know How to Recognize the Signs of Stroke
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Antipsychotic Medication, Weight Gain and Heart Disease
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...advice, offer medication, or a referral to a sleep medicine doctor for further evaluation. ... Read more »

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What is High Blood Pressure?
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If you've been diagnosed with high blood pressure you may be wondering exactly what it is and how... Read more »

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What High Blood Pressure Means for Your Heart
By Glenn Gandelman, MD, MPH , Health Expert

...this blog to address the relationship between high blood pressure and heart disease.It has been... Read more »

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Checking Blood Pressure at Home
By David Mendosa , Health Expert

...we need to rely on our doctors. But checking our blood pressure isn’t one of those times.  If... Read more »

Health Guide

Coronary Artery Disease: Other Medications
...no increased danger when patients used a nitroglycerine patch with scheduled breaks. The use of high blood pressure drugs known as ACE inhibitors may help prevent tolerance to nitrates.Side... Read more »
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Diagnosis
...of physical activity in people with CFS.Tilt Test for Neurally Mediated HypotensionSimply measuring blood pressure will not identify CFS patients in whom the syndrome might be caused by neurally... Read more »
Anemia: Treatment
...or naproxen, in most people.Iron toxicity. Symptoms include nausea, dizziness, and a sudden drop in blood pressure. Sodium ferric gluconate in sucrose (Ferrlecit) or iron sucrose (Venofer) may... 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: Highlights
Guidelines for Preventing and Treating High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)The American Heart Associations 2006 guidelines recommend that people should:Maintain a healthy weightExercise at... Read more »

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