You or a loved one suffers from the ’silent killer’ of High Blood Pressure or Hypertension. Unfortunately, you are dealing with a very deadly disease that kills almost 60,000 Americans every year. Fortunately, you know that you (or a loved one) have High Blood Pressure and you are doing something about it! Information is one […]

Hypertension, or high blood pressure, currently affects one in every three women and two in every five men - but 90 per cent of people who suffer from hypertension still don’t know why they have it. Despite the millions of pounds of research that has gone into investigating hypertension, its causes are still hazy in […]

Hypercholesterolemia statistics tell us about the number of adults in the United States with levels of total blood cholesterol above 200 mg/dL, the beginning level for high risk hypercholesterolemia.
This information is the latest on hypercholesterolemia statistics from the National Center For Health Statistics, 1999-2004.
Over 105 million adults in the United States have total blood cholesterol […]

Good Fats…Bad Fats…it can be very confusing to many of us. But despite a growing understanding of fats—what makes a good fat or a bad fat and why your body absolutely needs fat—there are still a number of myths and misunderstandings out there I need to make clear.
For example, a number of people in the […]

Terminalia arjuna is a tree growing wild in plains of northern India. The bark of this tree has been described in Ayurveda - the ancient indian traditional medicine, as a best herbal remedy for cleansing the arteries.
The pumping activity and the strength of the cardiac muscles is improved by the use age of Arjuna, there […]

For almost 6 years, I worked as a retail store manager. In April of 1997, I was put on medical disability due to my declining heart condition.
My problems all started when I was an 18 year old freshman in college. One day, I started noticing that I was becoming extremely fatigued when I was walking […]

When blood pressure starts causing damage to organs, especially the nervous system, the cardiovascular system, and/or the kidneys, it is called Malignant Hypertension. A condition known as Papilledema is one example of such injury. Papilledema is a condition in which the optic nerve leading to the eye becomes severly swollen to the point of endangering […]

When blood pressure starts causing damage to organs, especially the nervous system, the cardiovascular system, and/or the kidneys, it is called Malignant Hypertension. A condition known as Papilledema is one example of such injury. Papilledema is a condition in which the optic nerve leading to the eye becomes severly swollen to the point of endangering […]

You need to make a decision because you or a loved one sufferers from high blood pressure. The ’silent killer’ of hypertension is not a disease that should be ignored. In fact, high blood pressure prematurely kills over 5 million people each year. However, hypertension can be cured with a variety of methods with both […]

Arteries carry blood from the heart to the rest of the body, and coronary arteries supply blood to the heart muscles. When the coronary artery gets blocked, a new channel is created to bypass the blockage, which is called bypass graft surgery. It uses a working blood vessel from another part of the body — […]