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How High Blood Pressure Affects Your Heart and What You Can Do About It

MIBHS

This condition, called atherosclerosis, narrows the arteries, restricting blood flow and increasing the risk of heart attacks and strokes. Increased Risk of Aneurysms : Chronic high blood pressure can weaken the walls of your arteries, leading to bulging areas known as aneurysms.

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"Exercise in a Pill": The Next Biohack or a Far-off Fantasy?

Physiologically Speaking

For one, drugs target single pathways or risk factors. ACE inhibitors block the angiotensin-converting enzyme to reduce blood pressure. Of course, exercise improves common cardiovascular risk factors like blood pressure, cholesterol, blood glucose, and it may even promote weight loss.

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What does the angiogram show? The Echo? The CT coronary angiogram? How do you explain this?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

associated typical Myocardial Infarction therapies such as statins and ACE inhibitors with significantly decreased 1 year mortality in MINOCA patients, which suggests that they do indeed have a similar pathophysiology to MI patients with obstructive coronary disease. Lindahl et al.