The cardiovascular benefits of an exercise program include the following: Increases the ability of your heart to pump blood Decreases your heart rate at rest and during moderate exercise May decrease your blood pressure if you have hypertension May increase your HDL cholesterol level May decrease LDL cholesterol and total cholesterol levels May decrease your [...]

Can’t women take estrogen injections? They can and for a long time they did. But the popularity of such shots has fallen off in the face of numerous reports as to their adverse side effects. Such injections, so some research indicates, produce an appreciably greater risk of cancer, among other things. Are some races more [...]

What causes blood pressure to become too high? To begin with, medicine makes a distinction between what it calls essential and what it calls secondary hypertension. Secondary hypertension results from various deficiencies and defects elsewhere in the body such as in the kidneys, adrenal glands, the nervous system, etc. Frequently these conditions can be remedied [...]

Once a diagnosis of hypertension is firmly established, what do you do? According to a study entitled “Heartstyles: Profiles in Hypertension,” based on data analyzed by Dr. Michael Weber of the State University of New York and his colleagues, you might have one of several reactions. These researchers surveyed 727 patients and came up with [...]