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

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Often referred to as the silent killer, hypertension can quietly damage your heart and other vital organs over time. Understanding how high blood pressure impacts your heart and learning to manage it can significantly reduce your risk of heart disease and improve your overall health. What Is High Blood Pressure?

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Heart Failure – Does Testosterone Hold the Key?

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

One of the reasons I wanted to start this channel was because of my frustration at how limited we were when it came to treating heart disease patients. Unfortunately the term ‘heart failure’ has unnecessarily negative connotations- a better term is cardiac insufficiency.

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What Should Your Blood Pressure Be?

Dr. Paddy Barrett

We need to do better if we want to majorly impact rates of cardiovascular disease worldwide. Lifestyle measures, including good nutrition, regular exercise, adequate sleep, and appropriate stress management, are the best ways to maintain normal blood pressure throughout life. It is not enough. Lifetime Blood Pressure. N Engl J Med.

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Understanding an Enlarged Heart (Cardiomegaly): Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment

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The primary goals of treatment are to address the root cause, reduce the heart’s workload, and prevent complications like heart failure. Medications Medications are often the first line of treatment for cardiomegaly and can include: ACE inhibitors or ARBs , which help lower blood pressure and reduce the workload on the heart.

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Resynchronising the Heart in Heart Failure

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

The heart is a pump and if the heart is in some way damaged – be that by a heart attack or a virus or harmful drugs then the heart is unable to pump out enough blood to meet the body’s requirements especially when the body is asking for more blood such as during exercise.