Essays on Hypertension

The hypertension and the Cardiovascular disease are the factors which affects several organ-systems of our body, and this get initiated with the rheological properties of blood and its formed elements. Red blood cells (RBCs) are moving in circulation are continuously exposed to the Reactive oxygen...

Hypertension or high blood pressure is a chronic cardiovascular disease in which there is an elevated arterial blood pressure. When hypertension are sustained, it damages arterial blood vessels in the kidney, heart and brain and this has overtime led to an increased incidence of renal...

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...

Hypertension is the most hazardous diseases seen in the modern world today. It is also referred to as a silent killer due to its silent nature affecting lives of several people. As per the research it is being stated that hypertension is not a disorder...

Photo-plethysmography (PPG) is an optical technique which measures the blood volume changes in the arterial blood using red and IR LED’s of wavelength 660nm and 940nm. This paper proposes the methodology to measure the pulse rate from the video signal obtained using a LETV-LE MAX...

The relationship between diet and hypertension remains an area of controversy and research interest. Hypertension exerts a staggering worldwide burden on human quality of life and healthy care system resources via contribution to increased mortality and risk of cardiovascular diseases such as myocardial infraction, angina...

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...

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...

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...