What are the reasons for high blood pressure?

High blood pressure considered a silent killer disease and measured by determining the amount of blood the heart pumping in addition to the amount of blood flow in arteries.

High blood pressure problem in…

How to Use Garlic in Treating Hypertension

Garlic is more than food, being used for therapeutic purposes since ancient times. Only 12 weeks of treatment with the garlic supplements can be very helpful for hypertensive peoaple, reducing the risk of heart attack or stroke.

Australian scientists say that hypertension can be controlled by adding a garlic

supplement to the treatment…

Hypertension, fish and omega 3 fatty acids

With the age, type II diabetes is more likely to occur when a person is overweight or have high blood pressure (hypertension) and a sedentary lifestyle. If you include in your diet 2-3 times per week, the fish may be our most effective weapon against anemia, depression, cardiovascular, arthritis, neurodegenerative diseases (Parkinson’s). Because of high quality protein and fat it contains, the fish is so healthy and recommended.

IV Sildenafil Safe and Effective for Pulmonary Hypertension in Neonates

Intravenous sildenafil safely improves oxygenation in critically ill neonates with persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn.

These findings, the results of an open-label, dose-escalation trial, are reported in the December issue of the Journal of Pediatrics.

Despite a recent report that enteral sildenafil improves oxygenation and survival in babies with PPHN, little is…

Manage Drug Interactions Between Clopidogrel and Proton-Pump Inhibitors?

clopidogrel is the sixth most commonly dispensed medication in the United States.Indicated to reduce the rates of antithrombotic events in patients with a recent cardiovascular event, clopidogrel plays an integral role in the

care of patients after myocardial infarction, stroke, or acute coronary syndrome. To reduce the risk for gastrointestinal…

FDA Approves Aliskiren/Valsartan Combo for Hypertension

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a single-pill combination of the direct renin inhibitor aliskiren and the angiotensin receptor blocker valsartan (Valturna, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp) for the treatment of hypertension in patients not adequately controlled on either drug alone and as initial therapy in patients likely to need multiple drugs to achieve their blood pressure goals. The tablets will be available in 150/160-mg and 300/320-mg strengths.

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Possible interaction between clopidogrel and (PPIs)

EMEA(European Medicines Agency) issued statement on a possible interaction between clopidogrel (Plavix) and proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs) and has recommended that the product information for all clopidogrel-containing medicines be amended to discourage concomitant use of PPIs unless absolutely necessary

The UK medicines regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), has also issued advice…

Blood-pressure-lowering drugs should be offered to everyone

Drs Malcolm R Law and Nicholas Wald (Queen Mary University of London, UK). Said That Guidelines on the use of blood-pressure-lowering drugs can be simplified so that drugs are offered to people with all levels of blood pressure.

Our results indicate the importance of lowering blood pressure in everyone over a certain age, rather than…

Hemodialysis Improve By Dipyridamole Plus Aspirin

This trial evaluated the combination of extended-release dipyridamole(200 mg) and aspirin (25 mg) twice daily had a significant effect patency of newly created hemodialysis grafts according to the results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial reported in the May 21 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Arteriovenous graft stenosis…

Chewable Aspirin Is Better Absorbed Than Regular Aspirin

Asmall study show that Chewable Aspirin Is Better Absorbed Than Regular Aspirin,

In the  study, the volunteers (13 male; average age 31 years) were given supratherapeutic doses of aspirin, 1950 mg, as either a solid tablet swallowed, a solid tablet chewed then swallowed, or chewable tablets. They were given the aspirin with water after fasting for six hours, with a washout period of seven days between crossovers.

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