Blood Pressure Direct

by Karin Manning

Some common causes of erectile dysfunction are by health conditions, medications, or habits, or lifestyles that interfere with the blood flow to the penis to be able to sustain an erection for sexual intercourse.

Hypertension, or high blood pressure has no known symptoms. It is called the silent killer because you do not know you have it and you feel just fine. It is a major health problem and if it is left untreated can lead to erectile dysfunction, stoke, heart disease and others.

Unlike erectile dysfunction, which is a noticeable condition, high blood pressure does Read the rest of this entry »

by Nick Webb

Let's suppose you have high blood pressure and you have to take medications to treat it … what can you do? Or you're not on medication, but should be.

Hypertension, the scientific name for constant high blood pressure, is considered a silent killer because most people with hypertension are what is called asymptomatic, meaning without symptoms. Yes, a very large percentage of people with high blood pressure could be considered ticking time bombs. They can blow at any time. They get on with their daily lives not knowing that tragedy could be lurking just around the corner. Read the rest of this entry »

by Ben Franklin

Known or unknown, most people suffer from blood pressure problems, usually high blood pressure, at some point of time in their lives. This is predominantly because daily living has become something of a stressful condition. In a bid to make life easy, humans also increased stress levels and that in itself leads to myriad health problems of which blood pressure is one. There are people who go though life and living with this condition, and medication which does not affect their daily activity levels and there are others who are unable to reconcile to this fact and end up feeling even more stressed. The Read the rest of this entry »

by Roberto Sedycias

Studies reveal that blood pressure is the major medical problem in the world. An abnormal stress on the circulatory system leads to blood pressure and other related diseases such as stroke, heart attack and heart failure.

Generally, high blood pressure has no specific symptom; the only way to know about it is to have some medical tests done. A regular check-up of blood pressure is essential to monitor your health and to prevent the conditions from worsening further. In standard blood pressure measuring system, doctors use an arm cuff which is pumped up and the result is displayed Read the rest of this entry »

by David Silva

Most people have had a pressure cuff wrapped around their arm as part of a visit to the doctor. Most often, this is a screening process for hypertension. However, what most people don't know is that low blood pressure can be a problem, too. In certain situations, it can be a very big problem.

How Does Low Blood Pressure Happen?

While it was once thought that chronic low blood pressure may be linked to illnesses such as depression or anxiety, the truth is that more commonly it's a side effect of medications, especially cardiac drugs such as betablockers. But medications aren't Read the rest of this entry »

by Tyson J Stevenson

Blood is circulated through the arteries and veins to all the parts of our body. The pressure by which the blood pushes against the arteries' walls is known as the blood pressure. Whenever the heart beats it pumps blood into the arteries.

The heart beats 60 to 70 times per minute at rest condition.

As the heart beats while pumping the blood, the pressure of the blood rises and this is known as systolic pressure. The pressure of the blood falls between the heart beats when the heart is at rest condition and this is known as diastolic pressure. Both the systolic pressure and diastolic pressure Read the rest of this entry »

by Jamesina Goulbourne

Do you really want to control high blood pressure naturally but fear you will lose the battle? Then the first point you need to understand is that it all starts in the deep recesses of the mind. Your thinking patterns! You`ve heard of the saying "You are what you eat", well the same rings true with " You are what you think!" because thoughts transfer into actions.

As an exercise: I want you to think which of the following personalities best fits you, and then see how you can start to implement those thoughts into actions.

Are you a person who likes a challenge? What Read the rest of this entry »

by David Silva

The most recent blood pressure guidelines have adjusted some of the previous high blood pressure numbers and the way they're interpreted. If your readings are coming in higher than 140 mm Hg systolic and/or higher than 90 mm Hg diastolic, you're now considered to have hypertension.

Treatment is designed to get your numbers below these levels. In fact, if you've got diabetes or chronic kidney disease, treatment should reduce the numbers below 130 mm systolic and less than 80 mm diastolic.

Those with a systolic reading of 120 to 139 mm Hg or a diastolic reading of 80 to 89 Read the rest of this entry »

by Brue Baker

The dangerous thing about most medical conditions that relate to the heart, such as high blood pressure, are that there are often no symptoms that indicate a problem. The only way to know if your heart is healthy is to see a doctor once a year for a checkup.

Getting a blood pressure reading is imperative in diagnosing high blood pressure. If you haven't had your blood pressure taken before the procedure is painless, non-invasive, and easy.

Basically, the nurse on hand will wrap a cuff around your arm, inflate it and then deflate it, while listening to your heartbeat. What Read the rest of this entry »

by Jan Oliver

One of the most important pieces of medical data about your body is your blood pressure. A key component in understanding blood pressure is the ability to read blood pressure charts. Blood pressure is analogous to the water pressure of water going through plumbing in your house or through your garden hose.

Blood pressure is measured by two different numbers – diastolic blood pressure is the pressure (measured in milligrams of mercury) between beats of your heart, and systolic blood pressure is the amount of pressure put on your arteries when your heart is contracted, forcing blood Read the rest of this entry »