Heart Disease and Women

What every woman should know about heart disease.

High Blood Pressure Causes To Look Out For

With all the different high blood pressure causes, it's no wonder so many people suffer from this health condition. If you have high blood pressure as I do, it's best to understand all you can about this medical condition.

ECG Interpretations

For most people, the heartbeat is simply a sign of life. However, it holds many different significant meanings for physicians in their attempts to cure patients and help them live longer. Even a simple anomaly in the heartbeat can have serious implications and can cause death. An electrocardiogram or ECG is used to measure and record the electrical activity of the heart. This test is conducted using electrodes attached to the patient's chest. It provides a detailed graph that helps explain the heart's activity. A careful study of an EGC report and the derivation of medical signs and conclusions from it are known as ECG interpretation.

The Quickest Way to Lower Your Blood Pressure

Having a high blood pressure puts you at great risk to develop heart diseases or even to have a heart-attack. Unfortunately high blood pressure affects millions of people and the number of patients keeps increasing. It does not have any specific symptoms, so many aren't

Possible Causes For High Blood Pressure

The high blood pressure cure can be managed properly and kept at a low level if you will consider giving up all the negative factors in your life that greatly influence and sustain the high blood pressure: inadequate diets, not exercising enough, alcohol consumption and others.

Consumption of Green or Black Tea May Positively Effect Cardiovascular Disease

Over the years, researchers have stipulated that green or black tea consumption reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease. This is very important because people from all walks of life inevitably suffer from some form of this potentially deadly disease.

High Blood Pressure - Some Facts You Should Know

The medical term for high blood pressure is hypertension. High blood pressure is a blood pressure reading of 140/90 mmHg or higher being this condition a factor in 67 percent of heart attacks in the United States.

Introduction to Angina

Angina is a form of heart disease where the blood flow to the heart is restricted by a blockage in one or more of the arteries that carry blood into the heart. Usually, the first sign Angina is a pain in the chest, not unlike a squeezing or pressing sensation. Angina is also referred to as heart disease or coronary heart disease.

Health Anxiety: Cardio Rehab

Today,November 14, 2006 I begin an 8 week program to strengthen my heart muscle and get my body toned again. It is amazing how fast you can lose muscle tone. I never was a big fitness buff...

Money Can't Always Buy You Good Health - Taking a View on High Blood Pressure

In the overall scheme of things you have to put being given a diagnosis of High Blood Pressure into perspective. On the scale of being told you have terminal and potentially fatal illness High Blood Pressure has to be looked at in the right way.

Tips To Reduce Cholesterol: Your Diet Can Increase HDL And Mar LDL Production

HDL or good cholesterol is an essential component of our body and it serves the vital function of carrying excess blood LDL content back to liver. A low level of HDL may pose a big health threat. For, to fight with LDL, the bad cholesterol, what comes to your rescue is this HDL or High Density Lipoprotein. You may not be able to lower your bad cholesterol if you happen to be having a low level of HDL.

High Blood Pressure - The Silent Killer

High blood pressure is a dangerous condition because it exhibits no obvious symptoms but is the major cause of heart disease, stroke and kidney failure.

High Blood Pressure Can Cause Headaches

Being overweight, drinking a lot of alcohol and not eating right contribute to high blood pressure. The person may not notice anything wrong now but in a few years, this will come in the form of a stroke that could either kill or leave anyone paralyzed.

PAD - Reasons To Encourage Public Access Defibrillation

The majority of sudden cardiac arrests (SCA) come with no previous warning. This is the reason why there must be AEDs available at all times in public areas so as to increase the survival rate of the patients. Here are some more facts on AEDs and Public Access Defibrillation.