When it comes to keeping your blood pressure low, maintaining a healthy lifestyle is the most important thing

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.

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High blood pressure, or hypertension, is a condition that affects one in four American adults

What you should know:
•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.

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Your target heart rate represents the ideal amount of energy you should be exerting during exercise. Learn how to calculate your target heart rate with tips from a doctor in this free health video.

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First, let’s quickly review how medical massage therapy affects the arterial blood pressure in patients with EH. There are three major mechanisms which massage practitioners should use to help patients with hypertension: Balance the sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions of the autonomic nervous system, vasodilate the vertebral arteries and reduce peripheral vascular resistance. These three mechanisms are intimately correlated, hence the need to discuss them together as parts of the same process.

Vertebral arteries arise from the subclavian arteries. They ascend through the cervical vertebrae and enter the skull where they unite to form the basilar artery, supplying the posterior part of the brain. The vertebral arteries also give off two important arterial branches that supply the entire spinal cord: The anterior spinal artery and two posterior spinal arteries. The pathway of the vertebral arteries through the cervical vertebrae is quite complex. The transverse process of each cervical vertebra has a special opening called the transverse foramen through which the vertebral artery passes. Cervical vertebrae are positioned on top of one another such that these openings form a bony canal through which the vertebral arteries ascend.

The walls of vertebral arteries have their own sympathetic plexus innervation, regulating their constriction and dilation. It follows that any irritation to this plexus may result in their contraction. Even a minor facet joint subluxation, which may not even be visible by radiographic means, can produce an irritation slightly compressing the vertebral arteries. This constriction may lead to a reduced blood supply to the brain, which in turn will cause further vasoconstriction in an attempt to compensate for compromised circulation. The result is an inevitable increase in blood pressure or EH.

Other mechanisms that may cause a decrease in blood flow through the vertebral arteries are cervical spondylosis, emotional stress and physical overload of the neck and upper back muscles. As a result of these, a hypertonus develops in the cervical muscles. In order to maintain proper function, the brain’s daily perfusion has to be approximately 2,000 quarts of arterial blood. This rate is regulated by special vascular receptors in the arterial structures of the brain. Even a minor reduction in the amount of blood circulation triggers compensatory reactions such as an increased heart rate, increased cardiac output and, most importantly, an increased peripheral vascular resistance.

Peripheral vascular resistance is a major opposing force to the heart’s work. Every time the left ventricle ejects blood, the force of the cardiac contraction has to overcome the resistance of arterial vessels (especially on the level of middle-sized arteries in skeletal muscles). Thus, an increased sympathetic tone triggers arteriolar vasoconstriction, which increases peripheral vascular resistance, resulting in the heart having to work harder to pump blood.

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Stress indirectly affects blood pressure because of activities that a person may engage in when stressed or through the hormones that may be released during stressful periods. Find out how increased damage to arteries from the hormone released during stress can raise blood pressure with information from a nurse in this free video on blood pressure.

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High blood pressure causes heart attacks through the increased heart work load and narrowing blood vessels. If the heart is not getting enough blood, it can cause a heart attack. Monitor blood pressure if there is a history of hypertension with advice from a nurse in this free video on blood pressure.

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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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Studies have shown that high blood pressure can actually affect your life expectancy. Researchers followed more than three-thousand patients-all in different health-for over 40 years and discovered one factor more than anything else determined how long they lived–their blood pressure. Specifically, those with high blood pressure at age 50 lived on average five years less than those with normal levels. Whats even more alarming-a third of Americans with high blood pressure dont know they have it. Learn more in this video.

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