People with family members who have high blood pressure or a history of heart disease or diabetes. African-Americans. Women who are pregnant. Women who take birth control pills. People over age 60. People who are overwe

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With each beat of the heart, blood is pumped out of the heart into the blood vessels, which carry blood throughout your body. Blood pressure is the measurement of the pressure or force inside your blood vessels (arteries) with each beat of the heart.

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Pulmonary hypertension is abnormally high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs. "Primary" means that there are no other diseases of the heart or lungs causing the high blood pressure. Alternative Names: Pulmonary arterial hypertensi

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While all types of cardiomyopathy can cause heart failure, each case requires specific strategies for recovery. Heart failure is treated with a vigorous blend of patient education, dietary changes, and medications. Possible medications include:

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Additional symptoms that may occur: swelling of legs, ankles, or other portion of the body abdominal swelling or enlargement (liquid in the abdomen is called "ascites") low amount of urine during daytime need to uri

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Cardiomyopathy can be caused by viral infections; heart attacks; alcoholism; long-term, severe high blood pressure; or for other reasons not yet known. Specific types of cardiomyopathy include: Ischemic cardiomyopathy: This is caused by heart

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Intracerebral hemorrhage can affect any person, regardless of age, sex, or race, but it is most common in older individuals. Hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage is caused by chronic high blood pressure (hypertension). When blood pressure has remai

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As part of your treatment, it is important to have your blood pressure checked by your doctor at regular intervals. Your doctor will tell you how often that needs to be. You may want to consider a home blood pressure monitor as well. Bring the readi

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As blood is pumped through your body, it exerts pressure on the walls of your arteries. The systolic blood pressure is the pressure against these walls when the heart contracts, and the diastolic blood pressure is the pressure when the heart relaxes.

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High blood pressure can cause damage to blood vessels in the eyes. The higher the blood pressure and the longer it has been elevated, the more severe the damage is likely to be. Your health care provider can see narrowing of blood vessels and excess

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Have your blood pressure checked at regular intervals (as recommended by your health care provider) to monitor its condition and response to treatment. A proper diet, weight loss, exercise, and salt and alcohol reduction are often recommended for pa

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Blood pressure is measured in millimeters of mercury (mm Hg). Hypertension (high blood pressure) is when your blood pressure frequently goes over 140/90 mm Hg. A patient is considered "pre-hypertensive" if the top (systolic) number of the

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If you use 2 or more drugs at the same time, the way your body processes each drug can change. When this happens, the risk of side effects from each drug increases and each drug may not work the way it should. This is called a "drug-drug interac

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Like all medicines, high blood pressure drugs can cause side effects. However, the side effects usually are not severe and are not experienced very often. Some common side effects of high blood pressure medicines include the following: Headach

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High blood pressure medicines (also called antihypertensive medicines) can help lower your blood pressure. The goal of treatment is to reduce your blood pressure to normal levels with medicine that's easy to take and has few, if any, side effects. Yo

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There is ample evidence in the literature that therapy by a combination of qigong exercise and drugs is superior to that of drugs alone. The advantages of a combination therapy of qigong and drugs over drugs alone were discussed earlier in this paper

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Qigong exercise has been shown by rheoencephalography to increase blood flow to the brain. For 158 subjects with cerebral arteriosclerosis who practiced qigong for 1 to 6 months, improvements were noted in symptoms such as memory, dizziness, insomnia

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To study the mechanism of keeping fit by qigong, a controlled study was made of 100 subjects classified either as presenile or with senile impaired cerebral function. The subjects were divided into two groups of 50 people each with a mean age of 63 y

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One consequence of aging is that the levels of sex hormones change in unfavorable directions. For example, female sex hormone (estrogen) levels tend to increase in men and decrease in women. Three studies indicate that qigong exercise can reverse thi

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Aged hypertensive patients usually are found to have a deficiency of Heart-energy, which often leads to a weakened function of the left ventricle and a disturbance of microcirculation. The researchers evaluated the effects of qigong for120 aged patie

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Several groups in China have investigated the effects of qigong on hypertension (i.e., high blood pressure). The research of Wang, Xu and coworkers of the Shanghai Institute of Hypertension was selected for discussion because it serves as a model for

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