Men with coronary heart disease who began a daily exercise regime instead of undergoing invasive surgery proved less likely to suffer heart attacks or other coronary events, according to a report released today by the American Heart Association.
Investigations are required to make diagnosis, and to know the status of blood sugar levels:
Once you have diabetes, you’re on a diet for life. And over time the disease can lead to blindness, limb amputation and kidney damage so severe patients need dialysis. Today’s overweight kids need to be concerned about the same things their parents worry about: things such as high cholesterol and high blood pressure. And since children can be cruel to anyone who’s different, they have to worry about that, too. Unfortunately, it hasn’t become politically incorrect to tease fat kids.
A blood protein that is a marker for inflammation and high blood pressure may be a stronger predictor of heart attack than cholesterol, say US researchers. “This is the first major demonstration that C-reactive protein levels may help us predict the risk of developing hypertension,” said Howard Sesso, lead author of the study published in Journal of the American Medical Association.
Chocolates – perhaps the world’s favourite confectionery – may keep the heart running longer and stronger.
Most medical experts recommend a diet that’s low in saturated fat and calories, while being moderate to high in complex carbohydrates. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), outlines several guidelines for better health:
A measuring tape seems to be a powerful tool for identifying people at risk of developing high blood pressure, researchers from Brazil report. In a new study, people who were obese based on their waist circumference were most likely to develop high blood pressure during the next few years.
Mr. K. C. Pal, 67 years, Serampore, District – Hooghly, West Bengal, I visited him on 2nd July, 2003. The patient was lying on a plastic sheet. Sleeping. Unconsciously folding and straightening his left legs. A pipe was inserted in his nasal cavity for giving food juice. Catheter had been arranged.
We have presumed that Diabetes is incurable. You can only control it with medicine along with diet. I want to elicit few cases through which I can say that Diabetes is curable by properly given Homoeopathic Treatment. One has to follow Hering?s Law of Cure and each case should be considered individually without any prejudice.
A low blood pressure is associated with an increased risk of dementia in people over 75 years of age, according to a new report. This risk seems to pertain only to Alzheimer’s type dementia and is highest in subjects with persistently low pressures.