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What is Hypertension?
When your heart beats, it pumps blood into your arteries and creates pressure in them. That pressure is getting the blood to circulate throughout the body.
Every time you take the tension given two numbers. The first recorded systolic pressure (the one that occurs in the arteries when the heart beats) and the second, the diastolic pressure (that which occurs when the heart rests between beats).
If the pressure rises above the normal range – which could be coded in 140/90 in adults – there is what we call high blood pressure is a very common disease worldwide that affects more than 20 percent of adults between 40 and 65 years and almost 50 percent and those over 65. Read the rest of this entry »
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Obesity, Hypertension and Use of Diuretic Predict The Risk of Gout
Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine, U.S., have found that older age, obesity, hypertension, alcohol consumption or use of diuretics are risk factors predictive of women’s risk of developing gout, a disease produced by an accumulation of uric acid in the body, according to results of a study published in the latest issue of the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism. ”
This condition is characterized by inflammation of joints resulting from this accumulation of uric acid in the blood and, although this condition has been considered a disease more prevalent among men, more and more cases are being detected in older women advanced, the incidence has doubled in the last 20 years. Read the rest of this entry »