<rss xmlns:cm="http://choicemedia.com/content/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><title>HighBloodPressureConnection.com - Latest High Blood Pressure News</title><link>http://www.healthcentral.com/high-blood-pressure/</link><description>Latest High Blood Pressure News from HighBloodPressureConnection.com</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>60</ttl><image><title>HighBloodPressureConnection.com</title><width>120</width><height>19</height><url>http://www.healthcentral.com/images/hc_logo_sm.gif</url><link>http://www.healthcentral.com/high-blood-pressure/</link></image><item><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:26:04 EDT</pubDate><title>Teleradiology paves way for remote medicine</title><link>http://www.healthcentral.com/heart-disease/news-271960-66.html</link><description>On a computer monitor in his office in the high-tech hub of
Bangalore, Indian radiologist Arjun Kalyanpur examines a scan of
the skull of a six-year-old boy who fell off his bicycle.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.healthcentral.com/heart-disease/news-271960-66.html</guid></item><item><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:00:00 EDT</pubDate><title>Women Smokers Prone to Dangerous Blood Vessel Condition</title><link>http://www.healthcentral.com/diabetes/news-271920-31.html</link><description>Risk of abdominal aortic aneurysm is 8 times higher than in
nonsmokers, study says</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.healthcentral.com/diabetes/news-271920-31.html</guid></item><item><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:00:00 EDT</pubDate><title>Heart Docs Often Fail to Order Tests Before Angioplasty</title><link>http://www.healthcentral.com/heart-disease/news-271883-31.html</link><description>Cardiac stress tests show whether a patient even needs the
procedure, experts say</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.healthcentral.com/heart-disease/news-271883-31.html</guid></item><item><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:27:00 EDT</pubDate><title>Sleep apnea treatment good for the heart</title><link>http://www.healthcentral.com/high-blood-pressure/news-271859-66.html</link><description>The use of a breathing treatment called continuous positive airway
pressure, or CPAP, reduced cardiovascular disease risk factors in
patients with severe obstructive sleep apnea and metabolic
syndrome, but only in those with good adherence to CPAP, Slovakian
researchers found.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.healthcentral.com/high-blood-pressure/news-271859-66.html</guid></item><item><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:00:00 EDT</pubDate><title>A One-Man History of Cardiac Advances</title><link>http://www.healthcentral.com/heart-disease/news-271768-31.html</link><description>New Jersey man, 84, has benefited from 40 years of heart
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finds</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.healthcentral.com/heart-disease/news-271684-31.html</guid></item><item><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:27:00 EDT</pubDate><title>More Americans have high blood pressure</title><link>http://www.healthcentral.com/high-blood-pressure/news-271680-66.html</link><description>The number of Americans with hypertension (high blood pressure) has
increased but so has the number of Americans with adequately
treated high blood pressure, new research indicates.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.healthcentral.com/high-blood-pressure/news-271680-66.html</guid></item><item><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:00:00 EDT</pubDate><title>New Factors Join Kids' Sleep Disorders, Cognition</title><link>http://www.healthcentral.com/heart-disease/news-271497-31.html</link><description>Blood pressure, brain oxygen levels might modify severity of some
deficits, study says</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.healthcentral.com/heart-disease/news-271497-31.html</guid></item><item><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:00:00 EDT</pubDate><title>Little-Known Fat Can Be a Heartbreaker</title><link>http://www.healthcentral.com/heart-disease/news-271488-31.html</link><description>Elevated lipoprotein (a) levels boost cardiovascular disease risk
for some</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.healthcentral.com/heart-disease/news-271488-31.html</guid></item><item><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate><title>Metabolic Syndrome Raises Colon Cancer Risk 75%</title><link>http://www.healthcentral.com/ibd/news-271463-31.html</link><description>Finding suggests need for more careful screening for these
patients, researcher says</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.healthcentral.com/ibd/news-271463-31.html</guid></item><item><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:26:05 EDT</pubDate><title>Ginkgo extract offers promise to cut stroke</title><link>http://www.healthcentral.com/heart-disease/news-271400-66.html</link><description>Extract from the leaves of the ginkgo tree offers promise to
minimize brain damage caused by a stroke, scientists announced this
week.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.healthcentral.com/heart-disease/news-271400-66.html</guid></item><item><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:00:00 EDT</pubDate><title>Some Arteries Opened Safely Without Heparin</title><link>http://www.healthcentral.com/heart-disease/news-271298-31.html</link><description>But Italian researchers warn only the lowest-risk patients can
benefit</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.healthcentral.com/heart-disease/news-271298-31.html</guid></item><item><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:00:00 EDT</pubDate><title>Ginkgo Prevented Stroke Damage in Mice</title><link>http://www.healthcentral.com/heart-disease/news-271289-31.html</link><description>But it's not clear if the popular extract would be effective in
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9- to 11-year-olds living in a high-risk community to recognize
when a person is having a stroke and summon help quickly can work,
researchers have found.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.healthcentral.com/heart-disease/news-271268-66.html</guid></item><item><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:13:02 EDT</pubDate><title>Menopause does not raise blood pressure, study finds</title><link>http://www.healthcentral.com/heart-disease/news-271190-98.html</link><description>Two new studies suggest that the increase in blood pressure and cardiovascular risk that starts in many women after menopause is not caused by menopause itself.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.healthcentral.com/heart-disease/news-271190-98.html</guid></item></channel></rss>