Sentences with phrase «patient with high blood pressure»

Often the feeling is that reducing the health risks of patients with high blood pressure, such as stroke or heart attack, justifies the very serious drug intolerance that they can experience.

That's still not hugely surprising (though the researchers actually expected the opposite — that the overweight would post more about diet and exercise), but other correlations the team uncovered were more surprising, such as the fact that «patients with high blood pressure post more frequently about their children than do people without the condition.»

DTI, also called tractography, is not performed in routine medical practice, but the researchers suggest that physicians should start to consider potential brain damage as they treat patients with high blood pressure.

Current clinical practice is to prescribe ARBs as a first - line drug to many patients with high blood pressure, and physicians should now be more aware of potential role for these autoantibodies in decision to treat.

Although Adams had high blood pressure (145/95), the doctor recommended that she start the prescription appetite suppressant phentermine — a drug not recommended for patients with high blood pressure because, as a stimulant, it may increase blood pressure even more.

On the other hand, he says, obese patients with high blood pressure (hypertension) may see a relatively small reduction in long - term heart risk because hypertension is largely hereditary and is less likely to be affected by weight - loss surgery.

During the research, 40 patients with high blood pressure ate 10 grams of dried, enriched broccoli sprouts for four weeks but data showed no significant improvement in the health of their blood vessels or atherosclerosis risk.

Repeated infrared sauna treatments improved impaired blood vessel functions in patients with high blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol.

In one study patients with high blood pressure and heart problems received 4 grams of L - carnitine per day, and after 11 months, irregular heartbeat decreased significantly compared to non-supplemented patients.

Patients with high blood pressure who learned the Transcendental Meditation program showed a significant reduction of systolic and diastolic blood pressure after three months, in contrast to those randomly assigned to a control technique or to those who received health education on how to reduce blood pressure through diet and exercise.

Researchers from Aston Medical School in Birmingham looked at more than 900,000 patients with high blood pressure, high cholesterol and type 2 diabetes and found marriage led to higher survival rates.

«Under normal circumstances, myofibroblasts stimulate wound healing, but when there's an ongoing injury to an organ (e.g., the liver of a hepatitis C patient, the heart of a patient with high blood pressure, or the kidney of a patient with diabetes) these proteins clog up normal functioning,» said Humphreys, a Harvard Medical School associate professor at Brigham and Women's Hospital, who leads the Harvard Stem Cell Institute Kidney Program.

One study also found that patients with higher blood pressure had a bigger cortisol reactions from caffeine.

If all patients with high blood pressure were treated as outlined in current clinical guidelines, it is estimated that 46,000 deaths might be averted each year.