High Blood Pressure

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by Elizabeth L Perkins
Your heart is normally the size [...]

I’ve just discovered this new site devoted to low blood pressure.
You can find info about high blood pressure or hypertension all over the web but getting good quality stuff about the other end of the BP scale is more difficult.
Hypotension or low blood pressure causes a lot of symptoms including fatigue and dizziness. Treatment options [...]

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Can anyone help me out to understand this better?
I know that countries like Spain and Greece seem to have less health problems and I’ve read that it’s due to the mediterranean diet. I also heard from my doctor that the good bits are the red wine and the olive oil. And also not too much [...]

I love to eat salty peanuts but is it going to cause problems with my blood pressure?
Surely peanuts are good for me - high natural fats and the salt level doesn’t seem all that high really.
If I look after my blood pressure in other ways is it OK to keep eating peanuts? I heard that [...]

Can blood pressure cause me to have joint and muscle pains?
I’m on medication and my BP control is good at the moment but I seem to be getting stiff and painful joints all the time at present.
Will high blood pressure on it’s own cause me to develop pains in the joints - or is it [...]

Chocolate and blood pressure …… mmmm
How much chocolate should I eat if I want it to lower my blood pressure? And is it a special kind of chocolate that I need or is it just the normal sort I can buy anywhere.
I need to be careful because I have borderline diabetes but if I balance [...]

I just read an article about how taking the blood pressure reading round the ankle is a good way to predict my risk of stroke or heart attack.
Can I do this ankle blood pressure test with my own home blood pressure monitor?
What readings should I look out for?
I have a history in my family of [...]

I get so angry sometimes that my wife says I will have a stroke or a heart attack if I dont calm down.
Is this true?
Can being angry all the time trigger off a heart attack.
I checked my blood pressure on a home monitor one day when I felt stressed and angry and it was really [...]