Orthostatic hypotension occurs when blood pressure drops rapidly upon standing. It can result in dizziness, light-headedness or fainting. Recent finding: Patients with orthostatic hypotension who took pyridostigmine (Mestinon), either alone or with midodrine (ProAmatine), another medication used to treat low blood pressure,...
The 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Louis J. Ignarro, PhD, I for ground-breaking research into nitric oxide...
Skim milk lowers hypertension risk according to recent research. Recent finding: A two-year study of 5,880 people found that those who...
Systolic (the top number) blood pressure averaged 14 points higher when taken shortly after a patient arrived in the exam room and...
Prehypertension—blood pressure of 120 to 139 mmHg/80 to 89 mmHg—usually is treated with lifestyle measures, such as weight loss,...
More than 300 men who had normal or high blood pressure (above 140/90) were given tests for verbal fluency (generating words)...
The association between hypertension and caffeine had been attributed to coffee, but a new study shows that caffeinated colas increase women'...
When treating hypertension, doctors rarely pay attention to stress—but that's a mistake. Stress hormones, such as epinephrine and norepinephrine,...
High blood pressure (hypertension) has ffi long been termed "the silent killer." that's because it usually causes no...
You know that being obese is bad for you. And no one should misconstrue the following information as an excuse for being...
Women may experience heart attack warning symptoms more than a month before the attack. The most common symptom is overwhelming fatigue, reported...
An excessively noisy environment can cause a heart attack. Recent findings: Men who live in noisy areas are 50% more likely to...