If you’re like many Americans, your blood pressure has crept up as you’ve gotten older.
But it doesn’t have to. Our lifestyle has an impact on blood pressure; in fact, in parts of the world where people still live as their ancestors did, high blood pressure is rare.
Things that contribute to a healthy blood pressure include a diet high in fruits and vegetables.
Benefits of vitamin C: It’s not clear how fruits and veggies exert their effect, Read the rest of this entry »

The Lee Memorial Blood Center is calling on donors to once again help offset possible blood shortages.
Nancy Hendrick, community relations director for the blood center said: “If all who are eligible to donate would do so on a regular basis, blood needs could be met and shortages could become a thing of the past.”
January also is national blood donor month.
With so many demands for our time and attention, it’s very easy to lose sight of the Read the rest of this entry »

Although the variant was found in members of the genetically homogeneous Old Order Amish community in Pennsylvania, it is carried by about one of every five white Americans, said Yen-Pei Christy Chang, assistant professor of medicine, epidemiology and preventive medicine at the University of Maryland. Chang is a leader of the research group reporting the new finding in the current issue of the
.
While the variant doesn’t have an enormous effect Read the rest of this entry »

Somerset Medical Center’s blood supply is critically low and its Blood Donor Program is appealing to members of the community to donate blood to ensure an adequate supply to meet its patients’ needs. All blood types are needed.
“Our blood supply is always hardest hit in the winter months” says Kathy Puder, director of Somerset Medical Center’s Laboratory. “As the cold and flu season begins, many of our regular blood donors are sick and unable to Read the rest of this entry »

Published: February 02. 2009 12:01AM
WASHINGTON — Federal health officials said Friday a blood thinner from Eli Lilly offers lifesaving benefits over drugs currently on the market, though its use may have to be restricted due to bleeding side effects.
The Food and Drug Administration is reviewing the highly anticipated drug, called prasugrel, as a therapy for patients with acute heart problems such as heart attacks, who face increased risk of Read the rest of this entry »

If you’re like many Americans, your blood pressure has crept up as you’ve gotten older. But it doesn’t have to. Our lifestyle has an impact on blood pressure; in fact, in parts of the world where people still live as their ancestors did, high blood pressure is rare. Things that contribute to a healthy blood pressure include a diet high in fruits and vegetables.
It’s not clear how fruits and veggies exert their effect, though it likely has something Read the rest of this entry »

DURHAM, N.C., Jan. 6 — In obese patients with type 2 diabetes, the ketogenic diet — which stresses high fat and low carbohydrate intake — outperformed its low-glycemic index rival, researchers found.
After six months, improvements in blood glucose control, as measured by hemoglobin A1c, were significantly greater with the ketogenic diet based on the
than with a low-glycemic index, reduced-calorie diet, (–1.5% versus –0.5%,
=0.03), Eric Read the rest of this entry »

Mediterranean Diet Plus Nuts Lowers Stomach Fat, Blood Pressure
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) — A
plus a daily
serving of nuts may lower stomach fat and blood pressure in
older adults at risk for heart disease, a Spanish study found.
The prevalence of patients who had metabolic syndrome,
which includes a large waistline, high cholesterol and high
blood pressure, decreased almost 14 percent after a year among
those on the Mediterranean diet — which is Read the rest of this entry »

AtCor Medical (ASX: ACG),
the developer and marketer of the SphygmoCor(R) system, which
measures central blood pressures and arterial stiffness
noninvasively, today announced that a new study* funded by the
National Institutes of Health (NIH) found that when patients’ central
pulse pressures exceeded 50 mm of mercury, there was a significant
increase in cardiovascular events. The 2,405 patient study was
presented on November 12 Read the rest of this entry »

TUESDAY, Dec. 30 (HealthDay News) — Scientists have unmasked what appears to be a major mechanism contributing to normal, age-related cognitive decline.
Happily, it’s a mechanism that is amenable to change: rising blood glucose levels, which means that exercise might be the antidote.
showed that rising blood sugar levels, a normal part of aging, affect a part of the hippocampus, a part of the brain critical to learning and memory.
“This would Read the rest of this entry »