Psychology & Psychiatry
Gratitude may improve your health
Be thankful for what you have—it might improve your physical and mental health, according to a new global study that uses cell phone data.
Dec 6, 2021
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News tagged with lowering blood pressure
Cardiology
Blood pressure medication can't undo all damage
Treating out-of-control blood pressure with antihypertensive medication can greatly reduce your risk for heart attack, stroke and heart failure, but the current approach to treatment can't undo all of the previous damage ...
Oct 21, 2015
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Medications
What time of day should I take my medicine?
Whether you need to take a drug at a specific time of day depends on the medication and the condition you are treating. For some medicines, it doesn't matter what time you take it. And for others, the pharmacist may recommend ...
Nov 1, 2019
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Cardiology
For people with high blood pressure, telemonitoring may cut heart attack, stroke rate by 50%
People enrolled in a pharmacist-led telemonitoring program to control high blood pressure were about half as likely to have a heart attack or stroke compared to those who received routine primary care, according to new research ...
Aug 31, 2020
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Health
Prescriptions for fruits and vegetables can improve the health of people with diabetes and other ailments
The health of people with diabetes, hypertension and obesity improved when they could get free fruits and vegetables with a prescription from their doctors and other health professionals.
Aug 30, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Giving thanks could be good for you
(HealthDay)—Thanksgiving may be an official day of gratitude, but research suggests that if you make time for "thank you" every day, you might enjoy life more.
Nov 28, 2013
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Health
Blood pressure changes are age-related
The main causes of increases in blood pressure over a lifetime are modifiable and could be targeted to help prevent cardiovascular disease: although high blood pressure sometimes has no obvious symptoms, this condition, which ...
Jun 14, 2011
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Pediatrics
Potassium improved blood pressure in teen girls, salt had no adverse effect
Eating 3,000 mg per day of salt or more appears to have no adverse effect on blood pressure in adolescent girls, while those girls who consumed 2,400 mg per day or more of potassium had lower blood pressure at the end of ...
Apr 27, 2015
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Health
Mediterranean diet with extra dairy could be a gut gamechanger
A collaboration between SAHMRI, UniSA and Flinders University researchers has shown the classic Mediterranean diet with added dairy has the potential to change the composition of gut bacteria for the better, triggering a ...
Sep 14, 2023
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Cardiology
Blood pressure drugs help keep heart trouble at bay, FDA says
(HealthDay)—High blood pressure affects about one-third of American adults and raises their risk for heart attack, stroke, heart failure, kidney failure and death, but there are many medications available to lower blood ...
May 6, 2014
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