What Is Low Blood Pressure?
June 2, 2010 by admin
Filed under Heart Disease
The effect of high or low blood pressure can be discussed, but not more commonly it is the discussion of high blood pressure. The outcome of high blood pressure is more often or not aware of.
The heart forces the blood around our body, ensuring that oxygenated blood is pumped around and the de-oxygenated blood is returned to the lungs. The function the heart has to do and the amount of blood that flows is what we call blood pressure. Nobody has the indentical blood pressure rate and depending on what interest you are completing will depend on what level of blood pressure or how much oxygenated blood you have to have pumped around your body.
A blood pressure reading is made up of two figures. The top digit measures the force of the blood being moved around your body and this is called the systolic number. The diastolic reading which is the bottom number in a blood pressure reading indicates the level of the pressure of your blood in your body during every heart beat. It can be quite easy to confuse your blood pressure readings with your heart pulse rate. Your heart pulse rate does not measure the pressure of your blood in your body but the amount of times your heart actually beats.
A regular blood pressure reading could be a reading with a systolic reading somewhere between 90 and 130 and a diastolic pressure reading of between 60 and 80. You are usually classed as having low blood pressure if your recording has a top digit under 90 and a bottom figure below 60. Any readings with a systolic reading of 140 and higher and a diastolic reading of 90 and above would be classed as a high blood pressure reading. Many different factors may change your blood pressure reading making it either go high or low, ie being under lots of pressure. If you are out shopping (love shopping for women’s clothing and time just disappears and you need to pick the children up from childminder, can cause you loads of stress.
You don’t always get any symptoms if you are suffering from low blood pressure. Depending on how low your blood pressure goes, some symptoms can such as wooziness or feeling light headed, fainting or feeling like you are going to faint, feeling nauseous, weak and suffering from imperfect sight which appears all blurry. Low blood pressure can cause these symptoms, specially when your body is asked to exert itself a little more. The elderly suffer from low blood pressure more than other people of younger ages, especially when moving positions and standing up and these can cause them to fall. As you stand up or move about, your body needs to push more oxygenated blood about the body, particularly up to your brain cells. If you do not get enough oxygenated blood to your head, this is when you start experiencing these faint and giddy symptoms and put yourself in danger of falling. If you have had dinner, and start moving, you can find you suffer these dizzy symptoms. This is quite widespread amongst elderly people. Your body is required to provide your stomach and digestive organs with more oxygenated blood following meals which is when low blood pressure symptoms might occur following eating. As your heart increases the rate it beats, to stop low blood pressure being caused, your blood vessels will need to reduce in size to sustain a balanced pressure of blood circulating. If your blood vessels do not reduce appropriately and/or your heart rate does not increase enough, this is why your blood pressure will go low. If this applies to you then you will be required to eat more often but smaller amounts at a time. Low blood pressure might also be caused by not having enough blood circulating. This can be caused by dehydration or a kidney fault. People suffering from a critical illness, sickness or diarrhea, can get dehydrated which in turn can cause low blood pressure to occur.
You do not have a problem if you experience low blood pressure as long as you don’t start suffering from the symptoms mentioned. If you change your habits and life-style, this can control and improve your blood pressure without the need of taking medication. In search of cheap women’s clothing can take up plenty, whether at home on the internet or out shopping, so you need to ensure that you don’t skip a meal.
Please ask your Dr or get medical guidance, if you believe you suffer from low blood pressure and could be at risk of hurting yourself or causing yourself any more harm.
Do You Know About Silent Heart Attacks?
April 3, 2010 by admin
Filed under Heart Disease
The first and only symptom of a silent heart attack could be sudden death! A study found that death rates from silent heart attacks were the same as those from non-silent heart attacks. Silent heart attack symptoms are not distinctive as heart attacks go – a silent heart attack is very hard to find and are normally detected long after the event through a careful study of medical history, ECG (electrocardiogram; measures heart activity) and testing blood for cardiac enzymes. Other ways of sensing include a stress test or a blood test that detects certain hormones in the blood. Since the patient is not aware of the attack and significant, valuable time is wasted, the heart becomes permanently damaged. These attacks are disturbing in that seeking and acquiring quick treatment after an attack is necessary for both convalescence and survival. People most susceptible to silent heart attacks are those that have had a prior heart attack, individuals who have diabetes, men and women over the age of Sixty-five and those prone to strokes. There is more exploring to be done to determine individuals taking medication on a steady basis may also experience a silent heart attack. Twice as many people die from a silent heart attack as compared to those that experienced a myocardial infarction (MI) with chest pain.
The most crucial discussion for a silent heart attack is restoring the blood flow to the heart. These silent attacks lack the majority of the usual symptoms of a standard heart attack but can still be detected through ordinary signs such as discomfort in your chest, arms or jaw that seem to go away after resting, fatigue or extreme tiredness, nausea, sweating(particularly cold sweat), breathlessness and dizziness. An interesting statistic is that 25-30% of all heart attacks are silent.
It is believed that women have silent attacks a little more often than men. They can include soreness in your chest, arms or jaw that seem to go away after resting, shortness of breath and tiring. In a significant number of women with diabetics and the over-65, a heart attack comes without any symptoms. But silent heart attack symptoms may not include chest pain. Common silent heart attack symptoms include chest discomfort, or pains in the arm and/or jaw that go away after you rest, getting tired easily, and experiencing shortness of breath. One odd symptom that is not reported often or fully explained in regular and silent heart attacks is a feel of imminent doom. If you feel you have had a silent heart attack, you may want to take a non-acetaminophen aspirin as studies have shown doing so may help prevent heart damage that can occur from a silent heart attack.
Women
Even though women account for literally half of all heart attack deaths they are less likely than men to weigh they are having a heart attack. They also are more probable to hold up seeking emergency treatment Women with the highest calcium scores were especially at risk. Women are inclined to have their heart attacks after onset of menopause. One study found that about 5 percent of women considered at low risk for heart disease still face potential cardiovascular problems because of calcium buildup in their arteries. Symptoms in women are often mis-diagnosed. Women tend to have cardiovascular events later in life than do men and they are more often fatal or debilitating. Women who use combined oral contraceptive pills have a modestly increased risk of myocardial infarction, especially in the presence of other risk factors, such as smoking. Women, aged adults, and people with diabetes may have symptoms different from chest pain. The bottom line – women should give up smoking, take steps to lower high blood pressure and high cholesterol levels and control their blood sugar if they have diabetes. Women may experience atypical symptoms such as a pain between the shoulder blades rather than crushing chest pain. They also experience these atypical symptoms more often than their male and younger counterparts. As with men, women’s most common heart attack symptom is chest pain or discomfort. But women are slightly more likely than men to experience some of the other common symptoms, particularly shortness of breath, nausea/vomiting, and back or jaw pain.
Major Risk Factors
– Diabetes
– High Blood Pressure
– Hypercholesterolemia
– Positive family history of heart attack and stroke
– Smoking
– Obesity – if your waistline is more than Forty inches for men and 35 inches for women, then you have “central obesity.”
The risks are often underestimated because women develop heart disease later than men – often at age 65. Studies are showing that younger women are developing heart disease sooner than originally thought. One study stated that women still face in all probability cardiovascular problems because of Ca buildup in their arteries. There is consideration for routine scrutiny of coronary artery calcium to approximate heart risk for women. While there are no known measures to reduce coronary artery calcium, women can trim their risk for heart disease by measuring calcium which can show they might genuinely be at higher risk. After this finding, they can advance from preventive measures. The current state of affairs is that there are no known ways to trim back the calcium. Women have to offset it with lifestyle changes that reduce risk factors such as cholesterol.
Necrosis of a region of the heart muscle caused by an interruption in the supply of blood to the heart, normally as a event of stoppage of a coronary artery resulting from coronary artery disease. The most common cause is a blood clot (thrombus) that lodges in an area of a coronary artery thickened with cholesterol-containing plaque due to atherosclerosis. It is caused by a severely narrowed or completely blocked coronary arterial blood vessel that keeps oxygen and nutrients from reaching heart muscle.
Restoring blood flow can be accomplished by dissolving clots found in the artery (thrombolysis) or by pushing the arterial blood vessel open using a balloon (angioplasty). Since there is no consciousness of coronary artery blocks, the cause of the heart attack, the person continues with the habitual life style that played a major part in the creating of those blocks. Silent heart attacks are only the most extreme case of a still more prevalent condition called “silent ischemia” — a chronic shortage of oxygen- and nutrient-bearing blood to a portion of the heart. Although chest pain is normally the number One indicator, extreme shortness of breath would commonly take second place. The patient has to find and use the credible, proven data that can prevent and even reverse advanced coronary artery blocks. The most sure approach to build up your cardiac health (even with advanced coronary artery blockage) is the acceptance of a habitual and healthy exercise plan. A test for coronary artery Ca is easily done and life style changes can be commenced immediately.
Damaged
In the case of a silent heart attack, the patient is not aware of the infarction and because valuable time is wasted, the heart becomes permanently damaged. Finding out that your heart is badly damaged because you did not act right after a silent attack can be devastating. Your doctor can conduct test that enables looking for damaged areas of the heart and problems with the heart’s pumping action. This indicates the healthy and damaged areas of the heart.
Additional information on silent heart attacks can be found at The Healthy Place
Heart Disease Prevention (Part 2)
September 13, 2009 by admin
Filed under Heart Disease
Overview: Heart disease is the number-one cause of death among men and women in the United States. Yet it is also preventable and often reversible. In this interview, youll hear from an expert about heart disease prevention.
Part One:
Heart function
Atherosclerosis/Blockages
Cholesterol: HDL and LDL
Statin drugs
Part Two:
Heart disease prevention
Aspirin and ACE inhibitors
Beta blockers
Cholesterol
Diet
Exercise
Fatty fish with omega 3
Glucose (sugar) control
High blood pressure control
Inflammation
C-reactive protein
Guest: Dr. Michael Miller, a cardiologist at the University of Maryland Medical Center who is head of the Center for Preventive Cardiology. Dr. Miller is also an ociate professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine
Links:
Heart Disease Prevention (Part 1)
Heart Disease Prevention (Part 2)
Center for Preventive Cardiology
http://www.umm.edu/heart/preventive.htm
Dr. Michael Miller
http://www.umm.edu/heart/biographies.htm#Miller
Duration : 0:11:46
[MV HD + ENG SUB]MC Sniper & Outsider feat Horan (호란) – 심장병 (Heart Disease)
September 10, 2009 by admin
Filed under Heart Disease
MV : MC Sniper (스나이퍼) & Outsider (아웃사이더) feat Horan (호란) (Clazziquai Project 클래지콰이) – 심장병 (Heartache)
Singer : MC Sniper, Outsider & Horan
Single : Vol.1 – Lee Seung Hwans Hwantastic Project
Date : 7 September 2009
Tracklist :
1. 심장병
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My Opinion :
I don’t need say a lot of words ..
I think it’s one of best K-Rap song for 2009 ..
Sad rap is just amazing and the Duo MC Sniper & Outsider is just perfect like everytime.
Horan voice is awesome and make me feel more the song ..
I hope you like it too ..
Please reply ^_^
Duration : 0:4:1
OMG! It’s High Cholesterol Barbie!
September 7, 2009 by admin
Filed under High Cholesterol
Go to www.sistertosister.org/screen4 to make your pledge. Barbie’s doing it. So can you!
Duration : 0:1:19
How to reverse hair loss, high blood pressure and heart attack risk
September 7, 2009 by admin
Filed under High Blood Pressure
http://herbholist.com How to reverse hair loss and heart attack risk – Astaxanthin
Duration : 0:6:13
Heart Disease Awareness
September 7, 2009 by admin
Filed under Heart Disease
This is a short video made for a university project that I directed and edited. The aim of this video is to make 16-25 years aware of the causes of heart disease and to make them think more carefully about their current lifestyle.
Duration : 0:2:55
Cure for AIDS, Cancer, Heart Disease & All Diseases
September 4, 2009 by admin
Filed under Heart Disease
http://www.1MinuteCure.com – Scientifically proven therapy that enables the body to cure itself of AIDS, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s Disease, arthritis, Parkinson’s Disease, asthma and virtually all diseases. http://www.1MinuteCure.com
Duration : 0:8:17
Dr. Paul Rosch talks about the Myth of high Cholesterol and dangers of Statin drugs . Part 8
September 1, 2009 by admin
Filed under High Cholesterol
Paul Rosch, MD Talks about the Dangers of Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs and the myths of Cholesterol.
Dr. Rosch will focus on the subtle yet serious and unappreciated dangers of cholesterol-lowering measures using statin drugs based on current guidelines due to confusion about the mechanisms that mediate their cardioprotective effects.
PAUL ROSCH, MD, is a clinical professor of medicine and psychiatry at New York Medical College and President of The American Institute of Stress. He has been involved in stress research for over 50 years. Dr. Rosch has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Outstanding Physicians Award of the New York State Medical Society. For the past decade, his interest and research has focused on subtle energy communication pathways in the body and the clinical applications of magnetic fields. He is the editor of Bioelectromagnetic Medicine, (Marcel Dekker), a 50-chapter volume that explains why certain electromagnetic therapies are likely to replace drugs in the next decade because of greater efficacy and safety.
Duration : 0:9:59
Dr. Paul Rosch talks about the Myth of high Cholesterol and dangers of Statin drugs . Part 3
August 29, 2009 by admin
Filed under High Cholesterol
Paul Rosch, MD Talks about the Dangers of Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs and the myths of Cholesterol.
Dr. Rosch will focus on the subtle yet serious and unappreciated dangers of cholesterol-lowering measures using statin drugs based on current guidelines due to confusion about the mechanisms that mediate their cardioprotective effects.
Duration : 0:9:56
