The existing body of evidence ... favors the notion that potassium supplementation should be considered as part of recommendations for prevention and treatment of hypertension,
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Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeles
Treatment doesn't bring back the risk to that of someone without hypertension, ... High blood pressure raises the risk threefold and treatment reduces it by 25 percent.
The overweight have a significantly higher risk of diabetes, gallstones, hypertension, and heart disease, ... All have costs and an impact on the quality of life that get ignored if we focus only on mortality.
If you're a person with a heart condition or hypertension, you're going to want a very good drug benefit.
The emphasis today is on relatively low-tech screens for signs of incipient chronic disease -- adult-onset diabetes, hypertension and heart disease, cancer and the like. To help doctors track these indicators, the preventive services task force revises its guidelines continuously. Recently, for example, the task force recommended that doctors screen patients for depression. The screen is simple, almost a casual conversation -- How's work Are you feeling stressed Are you sleeping ... Many people who are depressed don't go to a psychiatrist looking for insight. Most are seen in primary-care situations.
We know from a lot of studies if you have health insurance you're more likely to get preventive care, detect conditions early on and you're more likely to have chronic conditions like diabetes or hypertension controlled effectively,
Maintaining good control of glucose and hypertension high blood pressure limits morbidity and mortality,
It has been difficult to show effects of stress on the development of hypertension because it may be that only a subset of people who show a genetic susceptibility will develop high blood pressure after chronic exposure to stress. Our research shows that effects of different candidate genes on the development of high blood pressure during adolescence depend on the environmental stressors that are present, the gender and the ethnicity, in a group of European American and African American youth that have been followed for 15 years.
I call them the vanguard of the Baby Boomers. Looking at their experience shows that risk factors like obesity and hypertension are going in the wrong direction and things are being squeezed.
That would make addiction more inheritable than diseases we commonly think of as genetic, such as adult onset diabetes or common hypertension,
We're talking about patients who are for the most part 65 years of age or older. Eighty-two percent of Medicare patients who want the medication have co-morbid conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, hypercholesteremia and prostate disease.
We've known for some time that smokers are under oxidative stress, because the smoke itself is an oxidant that creates free radicals and cell mutations. The immune response of the body also tends to cause inflammation, and this inflammation is one reason that smoking relates not only to lung cancer but other serious health problems such as diabetes, hypertension and heart disease.
We did an episode on Good Times which came out of a newspaper article about the incidence of hypertension in black males being higher than whites, and increasing. So we did a show in which James, the father on Good Times, had hypertension.
We found strong evidence to refute speculation that coffee consumption is associated with an increased risk of hypertension in women.
According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.