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How To Treat Hypertension
Analysis: Doctors swayed by money when diagnosing hypertension?
October 02, 2008pressure is diagnosed and treated. This analysis describes how drug companies are offering doctors money, perks, and information to influence the number of hypertension diagnoses--and therefore the profits from prescription medications. Read more »
Expert & Community Posts
Common Hypertension Complications
By Alvin Hopkinson , Health Expert...75% of strokes and heart attacks can be linked to high blood pressure. However, in African... Read more »
High Blood Pressure Drugs: Top 3 Effective Treatments
By Alvin Hopkinson , Health ExpertMany people suffer with high blood pressure in America despite the efforts of the American Heart... Read more »
Hypertension in the Elderly: A Growing Population at Risk
By Alvin Hopkinson , Health Expert...that age plays a major role in the development of high blood pressure. Specifically, 75% of... Read more »
Time to Have Kids Tested, Carefully, for Hypertension
By Craig Stoltz , Health Expert...Association suggests that three quarters of kids who have high blood pressure may be... Read more »
High Blood Pressure in Children
By Glenn Gandelman, MD, MPH , Health ExpertHigh blood pressure goes hand-in-hand with obesity. As obesity increases among children in the... 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 »Heart Disease Doctors: Larry Weinrauch, MD Cardiovascular Internist
...Fellow of the American Colleges of Physicians, Cardiology, the American Heart Association Council for High Blood Pressure Research, and one of the few physicians certified by the American Society... Read more »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 »Malignant hypertension (arteriolar nephrosclerosis)
...Hypertension - malignant Treatment Hospitalization is essential until the severe high blood pressure is under control. Medications delivered through an IV line, such as... Read more »Hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage
...Treatment and control of disorders that can bring on intracerebral hemorrhage will reduce the risk. High blood pressure should be treated as appropriate. DO NOT stop taking medications unless... Read more »Images
Medications
...ORALPronounced: (low-SAR-tan)Uses This drug is used to treat high blood pressure ... Read more »
...is used alone or with other medications to treat high blood pressure (hypertension) and to... Read more »
...medications called ACE inhibitors. It is used to treat high blood pressure (hypertension).... Read more »
...medications called ACE inhibitors. It is used to treat high blood pressure (hypertension) in... Read more »
...medications called ACE inhibitors. It is used to treat high blood pressure (hypertension). It... Read more »
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Inexpensive Hypertension Drug Could Treat MS
September 10, 2009(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Turning serendipity into science, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found that a safe, inexpensive... Read summary »
Letairis approved to treat dangerous type of hypertension
October 03, 2008The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the med Letairis to treat a life-threatening condition called pulmonary arterial hypertension.... Read summary »
Q&A: How much calcium is enough to protect bones?
October 03, 2008A Fosamax user tells Dr. Richard Harkness that she's confused about how much calcium to take to help prevent osteoporosis. Harkness responds to the... Read summary »
Study adds evidence to link between hypertension, impotence
February 25, 2009Arizona researchers say they have confirmed the link between high blood pressure and erectile dysfunction (ED). In an animal study, scientists found... Read summary »
Beta blockers linked to increased Type 2 diabetes risk
October 02, 2008Health watchdogs in the United Kingdom have called for a halt to the use of beta blockers to treat high blood pressure, citing evidence that the... Read summary »
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