High Blood Pressure - Stay Alert When Dealing With Your Hypertension

The risk of angioedema — localized swelling in the deep layers of
the skin that usually affects the face, throat, lips or tongue –
is more than 3 times higher with a class of blood pressure-lowering
drugs called angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors than
with other “antihypertensive” drugs, research advocates.

Source:ACE inhibitors may cause localized swelling: study

Advice and medications delivered via the web, along with home
blood pressure (BP) monitoring, lets people with high blood
pressure get their condition under control, researchers have report
in this week’s Journal of the American Medical Association.

Source:Internet-based care aids blood pressure control

Worried about the current hike in your blood pressure? Has your physician advised you on how to reach a lower blood pressure reading? If you’re still feeling lost, then read up on some of the tips and techniques that you can use to reverse your blood pressure back to a healthy and normal level.

Source:How to Achieve a Lower Blood Pressure Reading

No symptoms, but some loss of brain function occurs, study finds

Source:'Silent Strokes' Strike One in 10 Healthy People

Patches that deliver nitroglycerin through the skin do nothing to
help speed healing from a common type of injury to the Achilles
tendon, UK researchers have found.

Source:Nitroglycerin patch won't help Achilles injury