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Is Hypertension A Genetic Disease

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Aneurysms: What are they and why do they occur?

By Larry Weinrauch , Health Expert

...and the stress on the affected blood vessel. For genetic diseases, we are now able to target the... Read more »

Tackle High Blood Pressure and Cholesterol with Olive Leaf Extract

By Alvin Hopkinson , Health Expert

Because hypertension or high blood pressure is one of the most common diseases that entails... Read more »

High Blood Pressure and the Metabolic Syndrome

By Dr. Charles Whitcomb , Health Expert

...different definitions. All of them, however, include high blood pressure as a major criteria... Read more »

Differing Hypertension Treatments

By Dr. Larry Weinrauch , Health Expert

...among the almost one-third of Americans who have high blood pressure or hypertension.... Read more »

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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Causes of Cardiac Enlargement

...use of cocaine round out the list of most common causes of LVH. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a genetic disease related to weakness of the individual muscle fibers of the heart. These fibers... Read more »

Have you or a loved one just been diagnosed with high blood pressure?

If you have high blood pressure, also called hypertension, it means that you have elevated levels of pressure of blood in your arteries. Prolonged periods of high blood pressure can cause serious... 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: Complications

...(called target organs), including the kidneys, eyes, and heart, causing them to deteriorate over time. High blood pressure was directly responsible for nearly 44,619 American deaths in 2000 and... Read more »

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