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Bariatric surgery may reverse eye damage
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sep 15 (ANI): A study has recently found that early eye damage caused by obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes can potentially be reversed by bariatric surgery.
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Hypertension in young adults ups stroke, kidney damage later in life
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 21 (ANI): A study has found that people aged between 18 to 49, with high systolic blood pressure over 140, are at greater risk of stroke, damage of kidneys and brain.
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High blood pressure in youngsters linked to long-term heart risks
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 20 (ANI): While most of us are of the opinion hypertension is something that is only found in adults, the fact is hypertension in children is increasing by the day. A new study suggests hypertension in young adults shows long-term heart risks.
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Change in lifestyle, medication may cure secondary hypertension
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 19 (ANI): If you have high blood pressure of more than 180/ 120 mm Hg with no family history before 30 or after 55 years of age then you may be suffering from secondary hypertension and need to bring in lifestyle modification and medications.
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World Hypertension Day 2017: Lifestyle Management of Hypertension
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 17 (ANI): High blood pressure (BP) or hypertension is a silent killer and often the symptoms go unnoticed during the early phase.
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Men of 25-35 age group are more pre-hypertensive: Study
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 17 (ANI): Men between the age of 25 to 35 need to meditate more, as a study finds, 26 percent of men and 22 percent of women have reported of pre-hypertension.
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World Hypertension Day: Know your Blood Pressure!
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 17 (ANI): World Hypertension Day, observed on the 17th of May every year, calls out for increasing awareness about this silent killer and help people realise that hypertension or high blood pressure is a preventable and controllable condition.
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Hypertension can be fatal if ignored!
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 17 (ANI): Hypertension has always been perceived as one of those conditions, which becomes threatening/ fatal, when a person is ageing and is approaching his/her late 40s.
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World Hypertension Day: Quick guide to prevent its first signs
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 17 (ANI): In the 21st century, hypertension is considered as a global public health issue.
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Indian Council for Medical Research along others to raise awareness of Blo
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 1 (ANI-NewsVoir): Recognizing that raised blood pressure or Hypertension is the biggest single contributing risk factor to death and the burden of disease worldwide, Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) - Government of India, along with Public Health Foundation o
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India facing a hypertension epidemic, confirms latest NFHS survey
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar. 25 (ANI): The findings of the National Family Health Survey 2015-16 confirm what we all knew from clinical evidence - that hypertension has become a major health concern among the Indian population, with as many as 22% Indians hypertensive.
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Targeting immune cells in obese can treat diabetes, hypertension
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar. 20 (ANI): In over-weight people, immune cells prevalent in the fatty tissue get reduced in number which may contribute to cause diabetes and hypertension, according to a recent study.
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