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What Should Your Blood Pressure Be?

Dr. Paddy Barrett

The answer is pretty simple, but most people get this wrong, and doing so increases their future risk of heart attack and strokes. Most people with high blood pressure will be treated with an ACE inhibitor, ARB, calcium channel blocker or a diuretic. What Medication To Get To Target? There are others also.

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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. This condition reduces blood flow to the heart, increasing the risk of angina (chest pain) and heart attacks.

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What is wrong with the NHS? Part two.

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

The aim is to reduce death and damage from nasty things such as heart attacks and strokes. With diabetes, the aim is also to reduce heart attacks and strokes… additionally kidney failure, and amputations, and blindness. It makes up a significant portion of their income. The aim of all this?

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Heart Failure – Does Testosterone Hold the Key?

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

Heart failure is a chronic clinical syndrome characterised by the inability of the heart to pump out enough blood to meet the body’s requirements. Because the heart is responsible for pumping blood to the rest of the body, virtually all systems of the body suffer as a consequence of heart failure.