Sleep Pattern of High Blood Pressure

Sleep Pattern of High Blood Pressure

Most people with poor sleep have likely been told by their doctors that getting enough quality sleep each night will be critical to good health, especially in maintaining healthy blood pressure. But an Italian study looking at men and women and their sleep patterns...
The Secret Gene Connection of High Blood

The Secret Gene Connection of High Blood

We often want to blame high blood pressure on genetic factors. There’s nothing we can do if our parents and grandparents had the same health issues, right? Not necessarily so. Scientists have yet to find genes or combinations of genes that count for more than a 3-5...
Does High Cholesterol Cause Cancer?

Does High Cholesterol Cause Cancer?

If people with unhealthy cholesterol levels ever needed more incentive to get it under control, new research out of University of Rochester Medical Centre have just given it to them. Researchers have long suspected that cholesterol and cancer are linked because the...
Dangerous Herbal Remedies to Avoid

Dangerous Herbal Remedies to Avoid

Most of us are under the impression that herbal remedies are quite safe. We prefer them because they cause little or no side effects, right? If however, you have been forced to take high blood pressure medications, cholesterol medications, blood thinning medications...