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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 ... 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 The pressure sensor is placed directly into the femoral artery in the groin and the device is diameter of about one millimeter. It moves at a rapid pace too, 30 times 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 ... Read on »

Potatoes reduce blood pressure in people with obesity and high blood pressure by Karen Bastille Health Maven

Posted Thu 08 Sep 2011 10:14pm DENVER, Aug. 31, 2011 The potato’s stereotype as a fattening food for health-conscious folks to avoid is getting another revision today as scientists report that just a couple servings of spuds a day reduces blood pressure almost as much as oatmeal without causing weight gain. Scientists reported on the research , don ... Read on »

Blood Pressure Drug Toprol XL Combined with Diuretic Dutoprol Approved by FDA To Treat High Blood Pressure by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted Sun 15 Apr 2012 2:45am Toprol has been around a long time and now we have a new drug with being combined with a low dose diuretic medication. There are many blood pressure drugs on the market and Astra-Zeneca appears to be keeping the drug affordable although there are some that are even less. The drug maker said it will charge $18.3 ... Read on »

Peer Pressure or Personal Pressure? by Vanessa Van Petten Patient Expert

Posted Sat 19 Dec 2009 9:00am

1 Comment Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic. Powered by WP Greet Box Maria Elena is a 16-year-old from Wilmington, DE. She enjoys dancing and cooking and her favorite subject is Math because she likes solving big equations. “If your friends jumped o ... Read on »

Michael Natkin's Chocolate Bread Pudding -Pressure cookerizedMore tips on converting a recipe to the pressure cooker by Laura of hip pressure cooking Posted Tue 08 May 2012 4:20am Julia Child is not an easy act to follow. So it took me a while to find another recipe worthy of being pressure cookerized. Michael Natkin , the man behind the culinary adventurous veggie blog Herbivoracious , is publishing his first book by the same name today! In celebration, he has kindly agreed to let me convert a recipe from his new boo ... 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 known as Neurally Mediated Hypotension ) will also have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, but a large percent of people who suffer from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome do have Neuro ... 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 known as Neurally Mediated Hypotension ) will also have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, but a large percent of people who suffer from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome do have Neuro ... Read on »

Under Pressure. Marathon Pressure. by Ashley M. Posted Thu 30 Sep 2010 12:21pm I realize with our upcoming race that there's been a lot of marathon talk on the blog lately. I also realize many of you are newbie runners -- and I'm thrilled we've been able to help so many of you find your stride. So, today's post is for you! Last night on Twitter , I asked our followers the following question Why as ... Read on »

Home Blood Pressure Monitoring Plus IVR Plus Pharmacist Results In Blood Pressure Control by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted Tue 19 Apr 2011 9:59pm Add patient, IVR and pharmacist? Thanks to a plethora of disease management studies on diabetes and heart failure, the Disease Management Care Blog is always on the look out for its application for other chronic conditions. That's why this particular piece on A Multimodal Blood Pressure Control Intervention in 3 Healthcare Syst ... Read on »