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Beetroot bread and hypertension
AS THE baking boom continues, scientists have discovered a new way to boost your daily bread – by adding beetroot. Making a loaf with the brightly coloured root vegetable can lower blood pressure and...
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Variable blood pressure dangers
Going to get your blood pressure checked and finding that it’s gone down is great news, but don’t let that great news cause you to ease off your healthier lifestyle – if it goes back up again, you...
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Lower your risk of type 2 diabetes
Although type 2 diabetes is on the increase, experts say it’s never too late to lower your risk. Type 2 diabetes occurs when the amount of glucose in the blood is too high as the body cannot use it...
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Exercise and hypertension
Little more than half an hour of exercise every day could cut your risk of high blood pressure by almost a fifth, say researchers. Doing just four hours a week of physical activity during leisure time...
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Hypertension drug could help fight cancer
A commonly used blood pressure drug could help fight cancer by opening up blood vessels in solid tumours. Used beside conventional cancer-fighting drugs, it could improve life expectancy, experts...
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What your eyes can tell you about your health
Is there more to your health than meets the eye? According to experts, your peepers may hold clues to undiagnosed health problems and a routine eye test could reveal the truth. Optician Andy Hepworth...
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New test to predict pre-eclampsia
A new test to predict pre-eclampsia could save the lives of hundreds of babies in Britain each year, experts have claimed. By measuring the levels of a key protein in pregnant women before 35 weeks’...
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High salt intake linked to sleep apnoea
Switching to a low-salt diet could help tackle snoring, suggest Brazilian researchers. A clinical trial is underway to test the theory on patients with severe obstructive sleep apnoea or OSA. In this...
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ACE inhibitors may cause kidney damage
Drugs prescribed commonly to diabetics could cause serious kidney problems and result in hundreds of deaths each year, a study suggests. Researchers found that ACE inhibitors and similar drugs, which...
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Stress and your health
Stress is bad for you. We know it and tell ourselves that we’ll deal with it, later. But we’ve got some very good reasons for dealing with it now (apart from improving your health and reducing your...
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Thousands may be taking high blood pressure drugs needlessly
lancastria.net/blogThousands of adults may be needlessly taking tablets for high blood pressure, doctors say. A panel of experts in the U.S. has recommended that adults over 60 should only be...
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Hypertension more dangerous for women
lancastria.net/blogHypertension may be more dangerous in women than in men, new research suggests. Doctors may need to treat high blood pressure in women earlier and more aggressively than they do in...
View ArticleAtrial fibrillation in the UK
lancastria.net/blogMore than a million people in the UK now live with a condition that causes the heart to beat irregularly and can lead to strokes. Data from the British Heart Foundation (BHF) shows...
View ArticleInjection to treat hypertension
lancastria.net/blogA vaccine given just twice a year could keep high blood pressure at bay. The jab could free millions of people from the burden of taking pills every day to keep their condition under...
View ArticleEat well for your age – Your fifties
lancastria.net/blogIn your 50′s Eat well: As your reproductive system prepares to retire, your body shifts its production of hormones. Ease this transition by eating well. Other issues include raised...
View ArticleWhen should I take my medication – 1
lancastria.net/blogSynchonising the timing and dosage of medicines with our internal body clocks makes them work better with fewer side effects. Doctors tell us to take pills before or after eating and...
View ArticleHome remedies to treat hypertension
High blood pressure or Hypertension is a common condition in which the force of the blood against your artery walls is high enough that it may eventually cause health problems such as heart disease....
View ArticleUK kids eating too much salt
Children in the UK are eating far too much salt, with much of it coming from breads and cereals, research suggests. Children should eat less than a teaspoon of salt a day, but 70% of the 340 children...
View ArticleWatermelon could treat hypertension
Watermelon reduces high blood pressure in overweight people and could slash the risk of a heart attack, new research shows. Scientists found that the fruit significantly reduces blood pressure in...
View ArticleAquarobics may treat hypertension
“Working out in warm water could be a radical new cure for high blood pressure,” the Mail Online reports. Results of a small study suggest that “hot aquarobics” may benefit people who had failed to...
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