A new study by American and Spanish researchers have found that the more the amount of time children spent in front of a screen – TV, Computer, Video Game – the higher their blood pressure.
The study conducted among 111 kids (57 boys and 54 girls) of age 3 to 11 years found that this is true irrespective of whether they were obese or not.
“The findings …

The relationship between Blood Pressure and risk of Cardiovascular Disease events is continuous, consistent, and independent of other risk factors. The higher the Blood Pressure, the greater the chance of heart attack, Congestive Heart Failure, stroke, and kidney diseases. The presence of each additional risk factor compounds the risk from High Blood Pressure.
Among hypertensives, death usually results from ischemic heart disease. Individuals with severe, resistant …

People who are over 60 years of age and have high blood pressure stand a 60% higher chance of “Silent strokes” according to a new study. Silent strokes are strokes with out any obvious signs or symptoms. These are caused by minute occlusions in the blood vessels supplying the inner areas of the brain and do not cause any of the dramatic symptoms seen in …

British researchers have found that there is a higher chance that high blood pressure would be missed from being diagnosed among smokers in comparison to non smokers. This is in spite of the fact that smokers are at a higher risk for cardiovascular disease than non smokers.
In a study conducted by a team from University College London among 20,000 individuals in England, it has been …