Tobacco will cause an increase in blood pressure. As you should know, smoking is bad for health. So if you are a smoker, you are making a big mistake. If you have high blood pressure AND you smoke, you are “squaring” the mistake even further.
Smoking, by itself, is already a major risk factor for every [...]

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Stage 1 Hypertension is simply an early form of high blood pressure.  It has been referred to mild high blood pressure because it is literally the step before a severe case of hypertension. Generally, at this stage, you would be prescribed medication for treatment. In addition to medication, however, you need to assist to control [...]

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Fluctuating blood pressure is something that happens to everyone, and can occur due to a variety of conditions such as what position a person is in (are they sitting down? standing? lying down), what time of the day it is, the size and tightness of the pressure cuff used during a doctor’s visit, and so [...]

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Do you know that your blood pressure can varies throughout the day and it depends on the activities you are doing and your state of emotion? If you are experiencing a lot of stress in your daily life, you are having twice the risk of getting high blood pressure compared to others who are leading [...]

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Many things that we eat actually contain caffeine which is a mild stimulant. Food such as certain soft drinks, chocolate, tea and coffee all contain certain amount of caffeine. Consuming too much caffeine can result in us feeling jittery and nervous. More importantly, caffeine has also an effect of increasing our blood pressure. Two to [...]

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Research has indicated that it is a complex interaction among genetic, environmental, and lifestyle-related risk factors, which leads to high blood pressure. The primary factors of high blood pressure are poorly balanced and improper diet which are high in calories, salt, fat and low in protein and heart-protective nutrients, smoking, alcohol abuse, obesity, stress, toxins [...]

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The medical term for high blood pressure is hypertension. High blood pressure is a blood pressure reading of 140/90 mmHg or higher being this condition a factor in 67 percent of heart attacks in the United States.
The only way to detect high blood pressure is to keep track of your blood pressure readings. After diabetes, [...]

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