High Blood Pressure Blog with Craig Weber, M.D. February 2007 Archive

Beta blockers such at metoprolol and atenolol should not be used as the first medicine to treat high blood pressure. This according to updates posted via The Cochrane Collaboration, ... Read More

Work published in the Annals of Internal Medicine shows that common over-the-counter pain relievers - the NSAIDS - may increase the risk of high blood pressure. Dr. John Forman, ... Read More

The American Heart Association has released new guidelines for heart health, for the first time targeting problems and issues specific to women. The guidelines represent a different tone for the respected ... Read More

Not chocolate, exactly, but new research suggests that cocoa, the plant that gives rise to the popular desert, is an unusually rich source of flavenols - chemical compounds that have ... Read More

While high blood pressure is a well established and long recognized risk factor for stroke, research to be published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology has revealed ... Read More

The American Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute has reaffirmed that early education on the risk factors which can lead to high blood pressure is the key to prevention. In an ... Read More

University of Alabama epidemiologist Virginia Howard, speaking at the American Stroke Association's annual meeting, reported that more than half of Americans experiencing symptoms consistent with a possible stroke do not ... Read More

Researchers from the Innsbruck Medical University, the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory [EMBL] have discovered that Nifedipine, a calcium channel blocker and common high blood ... Read More

According to a new study, nearly half of all Americans don't know how much salt they should be eating. Judging by the numbers, it may be more accurate to ... Read More

Heart diesease in women is an important and, according to the American Heart Association, still poorly understood topic. Data collected by the agency reveals that fewer than one in five ... Read More

Collaborative research between scientists at the University of California, in San Diego, and Basque Health Service-Osakidetza, in Bilbao, Spain, has shown startling and alarming new trends regarding the health of ... Read More

An advertisement aired during Sunday's Super Bowl has been linked to King Pharmaceuticals, who make the popular blood pressure medicine Altace. The ad has been criticized both for how it seems ... Read More

For some people, the excitement and anxiety of the Super Bowl may be too much for their cardiovascular system to handle. This risk is especially great in those with ... Read More