What is High Blood Pressure Caused by?

by | Mar 20, 2011 | 2 comments

People on beta-blockers have slower metabolism and are 11 to 37 pounds heavier on the average than people similar age with high blood pressure that do not use beta-blockers. This is the result of a study based on data from 11,438 adults, led by Dr. Paul Lee of St....

Sea Salt and High Blood Pressure

by | Mar 18, 2011 | 17 comments

This blog entry again focuses on reader-requested commentary. There were a lot of requests to discuss salt in the diet and how that actually affects blood pressure, but one in particular asked specifically about differences in sea salt and table salt. There has been a...

Grieving and Blood Pressure

by | Mar 14, 2011 | 18 comments

Recently a staff member has been going through a very rough time. She asked me to share her experience because she knows as well as I do how grief can affect health and wanted our readers to know that you are not alone. Her mother passed away after a brief but...

Atrial Fibrillation and High Blood Pressure

by | Mar 11, 2011 | 21 comments

So back to the reader inquiries we go with today’s article. We had a lot of readers ask about a condition called Atrial Fibrillation. Most of the questions related to how to stop or prevent it. What is Atrial Fibrillation (AF)? There are a lot of symptoms and...