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Blood Pressure Monitors: Importance of monitoring blood pressure by Peter C. Complimentary & Alternative Medicine

Posted Thu 23 Oct 2008 6:33pm

1 Comment Blood Pressure Facts and Figures Your heart needs to pump blood via the arteries, arterioles, capillaries, and veins to the rest of the body to supply oxygen, nutrients and other essentials for health and maintain life. Obviously, it would take fluid (liquid) pressure to be able to do that through these narrow vessels, and the blood pressure needed Read on »

Blood Pressure Problems Are Associated With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – Monitoring Your Blood Pressure Can Be Very Imp by Catherine Patient Expert

Posted Wed 04 Nov 2009 10:01pm Why Monitoring Your Blood Pressure Is So Important If You Have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – by Catherine Morgan Not all people with Neuro-Cardiogenic Syncope (also... Syncope. Just like people with Diabetes use a monitor to check their blood sugar levels, it can be helpful for people with CFS to monitor their blood pressure. I recommend Read on »

Blood Pressure Problems Are Associated With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Monitoring Your Blood Pressure Can Be Very Important by Catherine Patient Expert

Posted Sat 11 Apr 2009 1:01am Why Monitoring Your Blood Pressure Is So Important If You Have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - by Catherine Morgan Not all people with Neuro-Cardiogenic Syncope (also... Syncope. Just like people with Diabetes use a monitor to check their blood sugar levels, it can be helpful for people with CFS to monitor their blood pressure. I recommend Read on »

Tiny pressure sensor implant in the femoral artery measures blood pressure 30 times a second by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted Thu 22 Jan 2009 5:14pm a second! Gee I’m happy and content with once a day, but I guess this will iron it down and give us all the blood pressure data we could ever hope for. But wait, there’s more... doctor can have all the blood pressure readings from me than he could have every wished for, and yes, there are clinical trials in Germany going on for this. I don’t know, I think Read on »

Cocoa flavanols improve blood pressure, blood vessel repair by Dr. John Z. Medical Doctor

Posted Tue 06 Jul 2010 12:00am UCSF.edu - High concentrations of cocoa flavanols decrease blood pressure... intervention using blood pressure readings, ultrasound to measure dilation of the brachial artery, and cell assays to calculate the number and behavior of circulating angiogenic cells Read on »

USPSTF: Blood Pressure Trumps Blood Glucose & the Implications for Diabetes and Hypertension Disease Management by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted Tue 02 Dec 2008 3:08am Persons with blood pressure readings consistently greater than 135/80 should be screened for diabetes mellitus every three years, or so says the U.S. Preventive Services... is reversed and twofold. The first is that the presence of diabetes alters the preferred blood pressure to less 135/80, even if it means starting a lifetime of daily pills. The second Read on »

Antioxidant in Orange Juice Linked to Better Blood Vessel Health, Lower Blood Pressure by Jan Posted Mon 05 Oct 2009 10:03pm . The researchers found that when the men drank the daily orange juice or the hesperidin-fortified drink, they had better endothelial function and lower diastolic blood pressure (the bottom number of a blood pressure reading) than when they drank the non-hesperidin beverage. In addition, gene expression profiles (as related to cardiovascular disease development) were Read on »

Blood sugar, high blood pressure and cholesterol control still important for diabetics. by Dr. Matthew M. Medical Doctor

Posted Sun 14 Mar 2010 6:52pm for diabetics dashed . If I were a diabetic, I might think that controlling blood pressure and cholesterol was not important. However, this couldn't be further from the truth. The same... was reported today at the American College of Cardiology meeting was the blood pressure and cholesterol arms of the study. The blood pressure arm similarly looked at getting the blood Read on »

Quick 3 Minute Overview on Blood Pressure by Heartstrong Registered Nurse

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Posted Fri 14 May 2010 4:22pm This is a video I filmed discussing high blood pressure, what your blood pressure numbers mean and things you can do to control your blood pressure. Why not take 3 minutes to learn the blood pressure basics… Read on »

High blood pressure during exercise: what it means and what you should do by Dr. Gabe M. Medical Doctor

Posted Tue 26 Aug 2008 4:03pm pressure is determined by the force of the heart's contraction times the resistance in the blood vessels. Normal blood pressure is 120 when the heart contracts and 80 when it relaxes... People who develop very high blood pressure during exercise are the ones most likely to develop high blood pressure in later years, according to a study reported Read on »