Articles in High Blood Pressure
Why Pay More For Your Blood Pressure Pill When an Old Standby Is Just as Good?
A good ol’ cheap drug is just as effective as the newer, sexier, expensive drugs as a first step in controlling high blood pressure, according to investigators reporting at the annual American Heart Association meeting in Orlando, FL. Since the…
Drugs Don’t Work If You Don’t Take Them? DUH!
High blood pressure patients who don’t take their medications are at major risk of medical complications, according to a new report in the journal Circulation. Sure, drug therapy can be exensive and have bothersome side effects. Medical skeptics invoke Big…
Salt Restriction: Good In Theory, But Impossible to Implement?
Reducing salt intake might be a good idea, but it may not matter since our bodies have irresistible physiologic mechanisms to defend a higher level of salt intake, according to a new report in the Clinical Journal of the American…
