Dutch regulators would not object in principle to a foreign bank trying to buy ABN Amro even if it planned to break it up and sell the parts. Barclays has been in exclusive talks with ABN Amro about a tie-up for the past three weeks. Nout Wellink, president of the Dutch Central ...

One of the most interesting changes to the treatment of High Blood Pressure or Hypertension in rexent years has been the almost universal accpetance of the use of what can be called complimentary medicine. At the forefront of these treatments and certainly one of the most popular is Acupuncture. Well accepted in ...

10 steps for fighting the good fight against high blood pressure It’s been more than a century since a Russian surgeon first described the simple and precise way to measure blood pressure that is still in use. We’ve learned a lot since then about what influences blood pressure and about how ...

There are bnew treatments appearing all the time for High Blood Pressure

The real killer here is that most often there are no direct symptoms of the fact that you may be suffering from High Blood Pressure. The more obvious signs and symptoms are dizziness and an increased frequency of Headaches with no relationship to other conditions (i.e. alcohol and hangovers etc). The ...

Ask a cross section of most women (understandably) what fears they have about the onset of the menopause and opinion will probably be equally divided between fears about putting on weight and the corresponding possibility of a rise in Blood Pressure. So, does Blood Pressure increase after the Menopause and can ...

Potassium is a chemical component with a whole bundle of similar properties to Sodium hence there are a great many who view Potassium as a ready replacement for Sodium in your diet. There are differences however (as any good Chemist will tell you) and the most basic diffeence is that Potassium ...

Smart answer? Try not to get it in the first place! OK so that is the sort of answer that is going to annoy the hell out of most people (especially those who are suffering from High Blood Pressure for reasons beyond their control) but the sad and inescapable fact is ...

In this article we're going to take a look at one of the slightly unexpected ways that you can be diagnosed with High Blood Pressure, what it can do to you if you ignore it and one of the things that you can do about it? Well why don’t we kick ...

Now here is one for the disbelievers. I had an appointment with my optician recently to check out my eyes for new glasses. I hadn't changed my old prescription for nearly two years and felt that once again my arms weren't long enough when it came to reading. The first thing the ...

If the truth be known probably not just one in particular. The problem with the whole business of dieting and High Blood Pressure is that there is a distinct correlation between High Blood Pressure and your diet. That is to say, eat the wrong things, your weight will go up, the ...

Artery Blood Cause High Pressure. Wow what a handful to describe? Still it is a term that for some reason people use to search when what they really mean is how much of a connection is there between artery damage to the Heart and High Blood Pressure and to what degree ...

Stroke is a type of cardiovascular disease. It affects the arteries leading to and within the brain. A stroke occurs when a blood vessel that carries oxygen and nutrients to the brain is either blocked by a clot or bursts. When that happens, part of the brain cannot get the ...

If left untreated it will kill you, plain and simple. Sorry to appear to be so down and depressive about it - in fact I am not sorry really 'cos if you got it then you need to get it treated now, straight away, not tommorrow, next week or sometime soon ...

At the risk of sounding simplistic there is only really one way to do this - and it can be done, it is just a little hard thats all. You have to take better care of yourself, go easy on the Alcohol, food etc. Coffee good or bad for the High ...

Common symptoms of high blood pressure include nervousness, irritation, sweating and difficulty sleeping? Wrong. High blood pressure has NO symptoms. That’s why it’s often called the “silent killer.” The only way to know if you have it is to have your blood pressure checked. ...

There are a great many types of High Blood Pressure Medicine in the market that are in use by Medical and Healthcare Professionals today. A single drug treatment may be able to cope and contain mild occurrences of High Blood Pressure. More severe Hypertension requires a combination of two or ...

Is there a definitive High Blood Pressure Diet? Is there a connection between your diet and High Blood Pressure and you? Whilst there are a great many claims to the former, the jury is still out as to whether there is one specific diet that outperforms all others and helps you ...

Alternative medicine, also called integrative or complementary medicine, features the use of non-traditional (at least in the western world) techniques for treatment. For example, self-relaxation approaches to the therapy of hypertension include yoga, biofeedback, and meditation. These techniques can, in fact, be effective in ...

Wow, the above title sounds a real mouthful but the reason for it is this. Apparently, (listen up at the back please) the yearly Winter Flu Jab can help reduce the number of fatal heart attacks, incidence of death and the number of unplanned emergency procedures that require work on ...