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Should you take medications for high blood pressure lifelong?

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The answer depends on what caused your high blood pressure. What are the reversible causes of high blood pressure? A transient drop in kidney function due to some illness (acute kidney injury) can raise the blood pressure. In this situation blood pressure medication can certainly be stopped.

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How to control high blood pressure without medications

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Just because you have been told that your blood pressure is above normal need not mean that you are tied up to medications lifelong. Changes in lifestyle can definitely bring down your blood pressure even without medications. One of the important ways in which to reduce elevated blood pressure is by reducing extra weight.

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Should you measure blood pressure in both arms?

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Guidelines on hypertension (high blood pressure) generally recommend measurement of blood pressure in both arms in the initial visit. They also suggest that the arm with higher blood pressure recording should be used to record blood pressure in subsequent visits.

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How Does Exercise Prevent Heart Disease?

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Regular exercise can bring down the blood pressure in the long run. Though blood pressure rises progressively with increasing exercise, it reduces the resting blood pressure in the long run. Maintaining normal blood pressure also reduces the risk of stroke and myocardial infarction.

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Head Up Tilt Test (HUTT)

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Sometimes, head up tilt test, also known in short as HUTT, is also done for the evaluation of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, POTS, a condition in which there is tachycardia on standing up, without a fall in blood pressure. And the basic principle is to observe the heart rate and blood pressure during the procedure.

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Developing a contemporary community clinic for patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction within the current National Health Service model

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Baseline characteristics, clinic activities (eg, medication changes, lifestyle modifications, management of comorbidities) and follow-up arrangements were compared between a HFpEF and general cardiology clinic to assess their impact on mortality and morbidity at 6 and 12 months.

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Relation Between Stroke and Heart Disease

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This leads to stagnation of blood in certain parts of the left atrium (upper chamber of the heart), where a blood clot can form. These clots can get dislodged and travel to blood vessels of the brain and block them, producing a stroke. Another reason for stroke is high blood pressure.