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Understand What Your Blood Sugar, Belly Fat and Blood Pressure Are Telling You
Quick answer: A useful home blood-pressure log keeps the individual readings, dates, times, and measurement conditions. Average the systolic and diastolic columns separately. Bring both the log and …
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Short answer: Evening readings can be higher because of measurement conditions, daily activities, medicines, or an underlying blood-pressure pattern. A repeated high evening reading should not …
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Short answer: yes, temporarily and clearly. Whether stress causes lasting, chronic high blood pressure is less certain, but stress reliably pushes people toward habits that do. That distinction …
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A waist measurement isn't just about how clothes fit. It's one of the more practical windows we have into a type of fat that behaves very differently from the rest. By Charles Kirkland, Founder, …
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Stress obviously spikes your blood pressure in the moment. Whether it can cause lasting hypertension on its own is a more careful, more interesting question than most headlines let on. By Charles …
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There isn't one blood pressure pill. There are several different drug classes that lower blood pressure through completely different mechanisms, and which one is right depends on far more than the …
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