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How Do Blood Pressure Medicines Differ?
Answer:. High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, is a major medical problem that can cause heart attacks and strokes. Treatment of high blood pressure is necessary to prevent these problems. In addition to weight loss, exercise and limited sodium intake, most patients require at least two types of medicines to help control blood pressure. [...]
Blood-Thinning Medicines
Why do I need to take a blood thinner? These medicines reduce your risk for heart attack, stroke, and blockages in your arteries and veins by preventing clumps of blood (blood clots) from forming or growing. However, blood thinners cannot break up blood clots that have already formed. Your doctor may prescribe a blood thinner [...]
Grapefruit Juice Can Interact With Medicines
Grapefruit Juice: Is it Affecting Your Medication? A nutraceutical is a food or part of a food that allegedly provides medicinal or health benefits, including the prevention and treatment of disease. Grapefruit juice has been touted as containing many compounds that can reduce hardening of the arteries (atherosclerosis) and even the risk of cancer. Grapefruit [...]
Discovery Health “Alternative Medicines for High Blood Pressure”
High blood pressure, or hypertension, involves a greater than normal pressure of blood coursing through the arteries. This high pressure forces the heart to work harder than normal and increases the risk of an aneurysm (rupture of an artery), heart attack, stroke, kidney failure, and other disorders. Several alternative approaches emphasize the need to eliminate [...]
Interaction between herbs, foods and medicines. Herbal Medicine, healing herbs
Medicine – Herb/Food Interactions Herbs and Foods May Lead to Complications If You Take Them with Drugs Many people have the mistaken notion that, being natural, all herbs and foods are safe. This is not so. Very often, herbs and foods may interact with medications you normally take that result in serious side reactions. It [...]
About EXFORGE
EXFORGE is a prescription medication used to treat high blood pressure (hypertension). EXFORGE contains two prescription medicines that work together to lower blood pressure: amlodipine, a calcium channel blocker (CCB), and valsartan, an angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB). The blood pressure-lowering effects of EXFORGE have been studied in several clinical trials that included over 5,000 patients [...]
Types of Blood pressure medicine
Blood pressure is referred to as the pressure exerted by the blood on the walls of the blood vessels, arteries and capillaries. Blood pressure is measured in a combination of two numbers i.e. one is the systolic pressure and the other is the diastolic pressure. Blood pressure has been responsible for many complications in the [...]