FRIDAY, July 20 (Healthday News) -- Many Medicaid recipients with chronic health conditions that can lead to Heart Disease -- diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol -- do not take their prescribed medications, a new study has found. read more..
SUNDAY, May 20 (Healthday News) -- Sleep apnea has already been linked to a host of adverse health problems, such as high blood pressure and Heart Disease. Now, new research suggests that in people who already have Cancer, the sleep disorder may raise their risk of dying from cancer. read more..
LONDON (Reuters) - Health data released on Wednesday provided the clearest evidence to date of the spread of Chronic Diseases like diabetes and Heart Disease from developed nations to poorer regions such as Africa, as lifestyles and diets there change. The United Nations data showed one in three adults worldwide has raised blood pressure - the cause of around half of all deaths from stroke and heart disease - and the condition affects almost half the adult population in some countries in Africa. ... read more..
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| Canada and the United States have the fewest patients with high blood pressure, the WHO said |
One in three adults suffers from high blood pressure, a key cause of strokes and heart disease, according to World Health Organisation figures released on Wednesday. read more..
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| Forget BMI: researchers say that measuring your waist-to-height ratio is a better way to calculate your body fat. |
Body mass index (BMI) may soon be replaced with a new tool for measuring body fat and associated health risks - waist-to-height ratio. read more..
FRIDAY, April 13 (Healthday News) -- The high blood pressure drug Toprol XLhas been combined with a low-dose diuretic to form Dutoprol (metoprolol succinate extended release/hyrdrochlorothiazide), which has been approved by the U.S. Food And Drug Administration to treat high blood pressure. read more..
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study of mothers and children in California finds that kids born to obese women are more likely to be diagnosed with autism or related developmental delays than the children of slimmer moms. The research, which was looking for effects on kids' cognitive development from a variety of "metabolic conditions" in mom -- including high blood pressure or diabetes -- found the strongest links between Obesity and autism-related disorders. Researchers also found ties between the other maternal metabolic conditions and developmental delays in kids. ... read more..
MONDAY, Feb. 13 (Healthday News) -- Merck's Zioptan drops (tafluprost ophthalmic solution) has been approved by the U.S. Food And Drug Administration to lower pressure within the eye among people with high blood pressure of the eye (ocular hypertension) or open-angle glaucoma, the most common form of the disease. read more..
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The world is full of people who are taking dozens of medications unnecessarily. Oh, the medicine is definitely necessary to manage their health conditions - except that many of those conditions would disappear if the people would simply change their habits. High blood pressure, high cholesterol, high triglycerides, sleep apnea, heart disease and diabetes - many of these ailments are directly related to obesity and resolve themselves with just a change in lifestyle habits. read more..
