Tag: High blood pressure
Metabolic Syndrome
People with ‘Metabolic Syndrome’ have at least three of the following five conditions: high blood pressure, high blood sugar, high triglycerides, low ‘good’ HDL...
How night-shift work disrupts your health
Night shift work causes chaos in the body as the central ‘clock’ in the brain doesn’t reboot, but other clocks in various organs like...
The highs and lows of blood pressure
You may understand that high blood pressure can increase risk of heart attacks and strokes but do you realise a low blood pressure can...
Chronic Kidney Disease
What is Chronic Kidney Disease, or CKD?
Chronic Kidney Disease or CKD occurs when the kidneys start to perform poorly and so compounds that might...
Patients with even slightly high blood pressure ‘at increased risk of...
After heart disease and cancer, strokes are statistically the third cause of death in the USA. And high blood pressure increases the risk of...