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Friday, October, 30, 2009

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Potassium and High Blood Pressure: The Mineral That Keeps on Giving

By Alvin Hopkinson Health Expert

If you are one that suffers with hypertension or high blood pressure, it is extremely important that you seek professional attention. Although the effects of the condition can be annoying, and even worse, life-threatening; there are many ways to control it.  Coincidently, on-going research is being conducted to establish how potassium can aid in this feat.

 

Medical professionals encourage patients to modify their lifestyles to control the aggression of the disease. One of the most "aggressive...

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Expert & Community Posts

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What is High Blood Pressure?
By Melanie Thomassian , Health Expert

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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Pulse Rate and High Blood Pressure: Defining the Connection
By Alvin Hopkinson , Health Expert

...the physician is the pulse rate. The pulse rate and high blood pressure are significant in that... Read more »

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Sodium and High Blood Pressure
By Dr. Charles Whitcomb , Health Expert

High blood pressure has been related to salt intake for over two thousand years. Chinese... Read more »

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Checking Blood Pressure at Home
By David Mendosa , Health Expert

...mercury. But we usually don’t have any symptoms of high blood pressure, so most people can’t... Read more »

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

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

Health Guide

High Blood Pressure, Hypertension Patient Guide
...percent of them are unaware of it. Since people with hypertension may not exhibit any symptoms, their high blood pressure is often undiagnosed until complications occur. It has been proven that... Read more »
Essential hypertension
Essential hypertension refers to high blood pressure with no identifiable cause. Alternative Names Hypertension - essential Causes, incidence, and... Read more »
Blood pressure
...cannot sense if their blood pressure is high (hypertension) because there are usually no symptoms. High blood pressure increases the risk of heart failure, heart attack, stroke, and kidney... Read more »
Can Blood Pressure Be Too Low?
...consider one of the items on the list of causes of excessively low blood pressure, such as dehydration. High blood pressure is not good for you, of course, but neither is excessively low blood... Read more »
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...Restlessness Anxiety Headache High blood pressure Pregnant women may have contractions and go into premature labor. Read more »

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