Essays on Blood Pressure

Physical exercise is one of the essential elements for controlling BP. Physical exercise controls BP through multiple long-term mechanisms which include decrease in sympathetic nerve traffic, potentiation of baroreceptor reflex, reduced arterial stiffness, increase total systemic arterial compliance, increase release of endothelium-derived nitric oxide and...

This case follows a forty-five-year-old woman who is living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), heart failure, diabetes mellitus and hypertension. During patient intake it was recorded that she eats a poor diet and smoked for twenty-two years. She is having symptoms of chronic cough...

The surplus of salt in our modern day diet makes many of us vulnerable to hypertension in old age. Nearly 1 in 4 Canadians past the age of 20 suffers from hypertension, with the risk significantly increasing with age. Consequently, chronic hypertension is a global...

Traditional Indian medicine is full of wonders. Plant-based healing agents and herbo-minerals are being used to heal a variety of diseases since ancient times. Shilajit is one of them, a unique herbo-mineral preparation used for millennia around Asia and Europe. It is extensively used in...

Hypertension (HTN) is a major global health burden. It is the most prevalent chronic medical condition seen in primary care. 1 It is responsible for 10. 8% of all deaths in India. 2 It effects various organ like heart, kidney, brain, eyes, etc. HTN is...