Posts Tagged ‘Blood Pressure’

Anger Management

It is a feeling of great annoyance or displeasure as a result of injury, mistreatment, opposition and some real or supposed grievance.

It is a natural emotion that every human experiences; even animals have the emotion of anger. Basically, anger is not just a mental state of mind, but it also triggers an increase in heart beat and blood pressure. Anger becomes a predominant feeling and takes over our behaviors both physiologically and cognitively.

There are some common factors that make people angry. These factors include rudeness, hunger, grief, tiredness, sexual frustration, pain, physical and mental illness, usage of drugs, injustice, embarrassment, traffic jams, disappointment, failure, financial problems, deadlines, being teased and burglary. When we are angry our body releases stress hormones. It causes body tiredness and problems regarding blood pressure, body temperature and breathing. Read the rest of this entry

FRIDAY, Aug. 15 (Health Day News) — Statins might help to prevent erectile dysfunction (ED) among those men who have metabolic syndrome, according to the new animal research.

A threat to cardiovascular health, metabolic syndrome, also raises the risk of ED. The recent finding mentioned that statins may reduce specific protein known as Rho-kinase level that contributes to ED.

“Each condition of metabolic syndrome phenomenon — high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes and obesity — independently raises the risk for erectile dysfunction just on their own,” explained study author Christopher J. Wingard,

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Do you know which the most common cardiovascular disease?

When faced with this question most people would reply as Heart failure or Cardiac arrests but both Heart failure as well as Cardiac arrest are medical conditions, medical emergencies, caused by a different, very common ailment, known as blood pressure. Yes, an abnormality in your blood pressure is the root cause of all types of heart diseases. A report by the World Health Organization reveals that high blood pressure affects about 20% of the adult population and 25% of the children worldwide. Ironically one third ARE NOT EVEN AWARE.

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