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Health Encyclopedia: High Blood Pressure Introduction
- High Blood Pressure - Introduction
- Highlights
- Diagnosis
- Causes of High Blood Pressure
- Risk Factors
- Complications
- High Blood Pressure Symptoms
Introduction
High blood pressure, also called hypertension, is elevated pressure of the blood in the arteries. Hypertension results from two major factors, which can be present independently or together:
- The heart pumps blood with excessive force
- The body's smaller blood vessels (known as the arterioles) narrow, so that blood flow exerts more pressure against the vessels' walls
Expert & Community Posts
Being Overweight Alone Boosts Heart Risk
By Craig Stoltz , Health Expert...about new research linking rising blood pressure in children with obesity. Read more »
Time to Have Kids Tested, Carefully, for Hypertension
By Craig Stoltz , Health Expert...pediatricians often don't account for this when assessing children's blood pressure, leaving... Read more »
Tips for Weight Loss
By David Mendosa , Health Expert...your mother kept telling you about all the starving children in China and India. If you can... Read more »
High Blood Pressure in Children
By Glenn Gandelman, MD, MPH , Health Expert...hand-in-hand with obesity. As obesity increases among children in the United States, so does... Read more »
A Better A1C Test
By David Mendosa , Health ExpertEven in these difficult times when almost all of us are learning how to become frugal again, money... Read more »
Health Guide
High Blood Pressure: Complications
...condition called preeclampsia (commonly called toxemia) that can be very serious for both mother and child. Preeclampsia occurs in up to 10% of all pregnancies, usually in the third trimester of a... Read more »Type 1 Diabetes: Diagnosis - Oral Glucose Tolerance Test
...have hypertension. Type 1 diabetes patients with microalbuminuria, on the other hand, usually have normal blood pressure readings in the doctor's office. A 2002 study using home monitors, however,... Read more »High Blood Pressure: Risk Factors
...rates from hypertension are higher in women than in men. Hypertension is also becoming more common in children and teenagers.EthnicityCompared to Caucasians, African Americans have 1.8 times the... Read more »Information on Keeping a Heart healthy Diet: unsaturated fats, low fat diets
...necessary to achieve significant improvements in cholesterol levels and to reduce other heart risk factors.ChildrenAtherosclerosis, the build-up of plaque in the arteries, begins in childhood.... Read more »Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia: Diagnosis
...common and safe procedures. However, because this test can produce considerable anxiety, particularly in children, parents may want to ask the doctor if sedation is appropriate for their child.A... Read more »Images
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Related News
Weight Gain Predicts Blood Pressure
September 15, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Growing like a weed may put babies at risk for high blood pressure in adulthood. Weight gain between birth and five months and... Read summary »
Body Building Supplement Could Take Breath Away
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September 02, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A new therapy may offer hope for adolescents with hypertension. In recent clinical trial, allopurinol (Zyloprim) -- a drug that... Read summary »
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November 10, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Studies show the average lifespan of a person diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease is between three and nine years, but new... Read summary »
Pass the Peas to Lower BP
March 27, 2009(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A protein found in common garden peas could be the key to saving the lives of millions of people who suffer from high blood... Read summary »
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