Category: Blood Pressure

The following experiment is one that involves the repeated contraction of muscles in the forearm in order to obtain data of the maximal grip strength and the factors that affect it. Muscles are a type of connective tissue that are attached to the bone by tendons and to each other by ligaments, and the tissue…

The developmental origins of health and disease theory posits that early life experiences may be associated with adult chronic disease development, including obesity and cardiovascular diseases. Consequently, there has been interest in the associations between birth weight, body composition and chronic diseases, such as hypertension. At the 64th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Public Health…

Renal sodium reabsorption is a tightly regulated mechanism controlling the body volume and consequently, blood pressure. Various genetic mutations giving rise to salt-wasting disorders have been identified on proteins responsible for sodium reabsorption, including those of NCC in the distal convoluted tubule (DCT). However, not only increased sodium in the urine, patients of such disorders…

Some people ask ‘ What is hypertension?’ or ‘ What effect does it have on our body?’ Well, Hypertension is when the force of blood against the artery walls get so high it causes a bunch of problems all over our bodies. Sounds complicated, right? Mainly all hypertension is high blood pressure that causes our…

Hypertension is one of leading illnesses in America: one out of every three Americans has this traitor disease. If you have blood pressure which is higher than normal, stroke and heart attack is only an inch closer, and you may never know when it hits you. There are hardly any high blood pressure symptoms to…

INTRODUCTION High blood pressure is one of the most common old age health issues and is one of the major risk factors for cardiovascular diseases. People over the age of 65 suffer mostly from isolated systolic hypertension with increased pulse pressure, resulting from loss of arterial elasticity. There are two types essential hypertension and secondary…

Observation: Improving patient care has become a priority for all healthcare providers with the overall objective of achieving a high degree of patient satisfaction. A number of contributing factors to improving patient care include greater awareness among the public, increasing demand for better care, keener competition, and more healthcare regulations. One of the greatest methods…

INTRODUCTION Obesity has been studied for years and is still being studied today (2). The leading cause of mortality worldwide is cardiovascular diseases, hypertension and diabetes, and this is associated with obesity. There are many contributing factors to obesity than one would think. Some of the health issues that could be life threatening are hypertension,…

Hypertension is the most hazardous disease seen in the modern world today. It is also referred to as a silent killer due to its silent nature affecting the lives of several people. As per the research it is being stated that hypertension is not a disorder of separate characteristics however, its appearance exists as a…

INTRODUCTION The stable West-African country Ghana is a nation on the rise, recently being upgraded from a low- to a lower middle income country (1). However, economy and welfare are not exclusively rising in Ghana: hypertension and consequently cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are on the rise as well (2–4). Hypertension, defined by a blood pressure (BP)…