What you should know:
• The arm should be level to the heart
•A normal reading for top number is 120 to 139
•A normal reading for bottom number is 80 to 89

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Hi, I’m Cordell Brown and I’m a CVS pharmacist. If you have high blood pressure, owning a home monitor can help you keep track of your levels.
Arm monitors are the most common and they are available in two types. Aneroid monitors are similar to the ones used in most doctors’ offices and are the least expensive. You simply wrap the cuff around your arm, squeeze a rubber ball to inflate the cuff, and listen to your pulse through a stethoscope as the cuff slowly deflates.
Digital monitors are similar, but you don’t have to use a stethoscope, and some models inflate automatically, so you don’t have to squeeze a bulb. After the cuff deflates, your pressure appears on screen. Although digital monitors are more expensive, they’re easier to use and leave less room for human error. They’re also a good choice for anyone with hearing problems, because you don’t have to listen through a stethoscope.
To ensure accurate results, make sure your cuff fits snugly around your bicep but you can still stick a finger under it. Also, take your home monitor with you to your next doctor’s appointment to check the accuracy against their machines.
When using your monitor, relax for a few minutes beforehand, sit still with your arm resting on a table so it is roughly level with your heart, and don’t talk while measuring. When storing your monitor be careful not to twist the tube or keep it near heat, and regularly check the tube for cracks or leaks.
Most importantly, understand your numbers. The top number, called systolic, describes the force of your blood when your heart beats. The bottom number, or diastolic, is the pressure when the main chamber in the left ventricle of your heart is at rest. As a general guideline, anything between 120 to 139 systolic and 80 to 89 diastolic is considered at-risk. Anything above 140 over 90 qualifies as high blood pressure.
If you have any questions, ask your CVS pharmacist. We’re here to help.

Source: CVS Caremark Health Resources

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What you should know:
•Healthy lifestyle reduces the risk of high blood pressure
•Fruits and vegetables with potassium lower blood pressure
•Monitor blood pressure regularly in relaxed environment

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Hi, I’m Melvin Smith and I’m a CVS pharmacist. When it comes to keeping your blood pressure low, maintaining a healthy lifestyle is the most important thing you can do. Here are a few things to remember.
First, stay active. Any regular exercise that gets your heart pumping faster, such as brisk walking, biking, or jogging can reduce your blood pressure and strengthen your heart. Also, watching your diet is very important. Making sure you have a mostly low-fat, low-cholesterol, low-salt diet will reduce blood pressure and prevent clogged arteries. Adding fruits and vegetables that contain potassium like oranges, bananas, or tomatoes, will help lower blood pressure, And if you drink, drink sensibly. One alcoholic drink a day may help lower your blood pressure, but too many will increase it. Cigarettes greatly increase your risk of having a heart attack or stroke. Also, if you feel chronically depressed, seek treatment. Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have concluded that depression and anxiety can more than double a person’s risk of developing high blood pressure.
In addition to certain lifestyle changes, you should keep a watchful eye on your blood pressure, monitoring it regularly. If you have severe hypertension, you may want to get a blood pressure monitor to use at home periodically. By repeatedly measuring your blood pressure in a relaxed environment, you’ll learn what your average pressure is and if your lifestyle changes are working.
Before a doctor prescribes any medicine, lifestyle changes are recommended as a first step. However, if your blood pressure remains high, it may be time to consider medication.
I hope these tips will be help you manage your blood pressure. If you have any questions, talk to your CVS pharmacist. We’re happy to help.

Source: CVS Caremark Health Resources

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•1 in 4 American adults has hypertension
•There are five types of medications
•Side effects vary with each medication

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Hi, I’m Cordell Brown, I’m a CVS pharmacist. High blood pressure, or hypertension, is a condition that affects one in four American adults. It can be serious, but fortunately there are a lot of medications to treat it.
Calcium channel blockers stop calcium from moving across the cell layer to help reduce the force of heart and muscle contractions. Side effects can include dizziness, fluid build-up in the legs, and rapid heart rate.
Peripheral vasodilators act by relaxing the blood vessels. Side effects of this drug include dizziness and orthostatic hypotension, which is a rapid lowering of blood pressure when a person stands up in the morning. Rising slowly out of bed reduces the effects.
Alpha and beta blockers work by making sure the contractions of the muscles in the arteries, veins, and heart are normal. Beta-blockers can cause heart abnormalities, including an irregular beat.
ACE inhibitors and ARBs help block angiotension II, a substance that constrict blood vessels and retains sodium. ACE inhibitors should not be used during pregnancy and may cause a persistent cough. ARBs are also well tolerated and do not cause the cough associated with ACE inhibitors.
Thiazide diuretics help lower blood pressure by promoting sodium loss. Typically this is recommended for mild hypertension and is often used in combination with the drugs mentioned earlier. It may cause potassium depletion, and routine use during pregnancy is not recommended.
I hope this helps explain blood pressure treatments. If you have any questions, talk to your CVS pharmacist. We’re here to help.

Source: CVS Caremark Health Resources

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•Maintain levels of total cholesterol and LDL
•Increased blood sugars seldom occur as a result of taking medications that lower cholesterol
•Determine your specific blood sugar and cholesterol goals with your doctor

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Hi, I’m Greg Collins and I’m a CVS pharmacist. If you have diabetes, maintaining levels of total cholesterol and LDL (or “the bad cholesterol”) within a healthy target range is very important in preventing cardiac and neurological problems. However, people who suffer from both diabetes and high blood pressure are often concerned that their blood pressure and cholesterol-lowering drugs will raise their blood sugar. The truth is that this is very rare; increased blood sugars seldom occur as a result of taking medications that lower cholesterol.
No matter what, if you have diabetes it’s important to maintain an optimal blood sugar level and cholesterol level at all times. According to the American Diabetes Association, the basic goal for people with diabetes is a blood sugar reading between 70 and 130 on an empty stomach, and less than 180 two hours after the start of a meal. The blood pressure goal is less than 130 over 80 and LDL goal of less than 100. Talk to your physician or diabetes educator to determine your specific goals. Proper diet, exercise, weight control, and medication all play incredibly important parts in preventing any major complications, including cardiac and neurological ones, and should be part of your daily routine.
I hope this answers any questions you may have about having diabetes and managing your high blood pressure and cholesterol. If you have any other questions, a CVS pharmacist will always be here to help.

Source: CVS Caremark Health Resources

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Causes of Hypertension.

Medical massage therapy is a soft tissue mobilization method. Several factors explain its physiological effects. Medical massage creates a mechanical acceleration of venous blood flow and lymphatic drainage, mechanical breakdown of pathological accumulation (e.g., soft tissue calcifications), and passive exercise on soft tissues. By mobilizing the skin, connective tissue, muscle tissue and the periosteum, receptors located in these areas are stimulated, generating afferent electrical impulses. These impulses reach the central nervous system, stimulating the body to react via beneficial reflex mechanisms. The end results are vasodilation (resulting in decreased blood pressure and heart rate), increased arterial blood supply to tissues, muscular tension release and other healthful reactions.

The control of increased arterial blood pressure in those with hypertension is an important medical and social challenge. Hypertension is considered to be a major cause of heart attacks and strokes. An interesting fact, however, is that out of all hypertension cases, only 10 percent of patients have an established cause explaining their condition. For example, narrowing of the aorta, adrenal tumors or glomerulonephritis produces hypertension secondarily. In 90 percent of patients, the cause of hypertension is unknown. In such cases, the patient has “essential hypertension” or EH.

Modern conventional medicine recognizes an imbalance between the sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions of the autonomic nervous system as the initial trigger of EH. An increase in sympathetic tone produces arteriolar vasoconstriction with a subsequent increase in the peripheral vascular resistance. At the onset, these changes exhibit a transient character and the body uses self-regulatory mechanisms to restore the proper relationship between sympathetic and parasympathetic tones. This is why in earlier stages there are episodes of increased arterial blood pressure, without symptoms of hypertension. With time and repeated episodes of hypertension attacks, the body resets special receptors, called baroreceptors, in the arterial circulation to the new level, and the elevation of arterial blood pressure becomes sustained. As we have found, a correctly formulated protocol of medical massage therapy may play a critical role in controlling arterial blood pressure in some patients with EH.

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