Tag: High Blood Pressure
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How to live with and manage High Blood Pressure
A Consultant Family and Lifestyle Medicine Physician, Dr Moyosore Makinde, says it is important for people to understand that High Blood Pressure (BP) condition is a lifetime illness hence the need for modification to healthy lifestyles.
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How to prevent, treat high blood pressure – Cardiologist
Dr Okechukwu Anthony, a cardiologist, has said that stress management was critical to preventing and treating High Blood Pressure (HBP). Anthony told the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) on Friday in Abuja that inadequate or poor-quality sleep could negatively affect people’s mood, their mental alertness, energy level and their physical health. He noted that most Nigerians…
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BEWARE! Long work-hour increases high blood pressure risk
Researchers in Canada have said that office workers who spend long hours on the job were more likely to have high blood pressure, including a type that can go undetected during a routine medical appointment. Findings of the study were recently published in ‘Hypertension,’ a journal of the American Heart Association (AHA). Compared with colleagues…
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Excessive make-up can cause high blood pressure, low fertility, expert warns ladies
People who are fond of wearing heavy make-up on their faces and skins to enhance their beauty have been warned to reduce such to its barest minimum. Some dermatologists who gave the warning on Monday said that this could cause the applicants high blood pressure, low fertility, skin cancer, irritation and other diseases. A Lagos-based…