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| UpdatedA blood pressure test can feel confusing and damning, with cryptic results like 145/90 or 120/80. So what do these numbers mean? And is there anything you can do to change them and reduce your risk?
Topics: health, heart-disease, hypertension
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Step away from the cured meats and put down those chips: Australian men are eating twice as much salt as the maximum recommended by the World Health Organisation, a study finds, putting them at risk of heart failure, strokes and kidney disease.
Topics: health, hypertension, womens-health, mens-health, diet-and-nutrition, heart-disease, liver-and-kidneys, stroke, australia
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There are plenty of factors that can give you a flushed red face. Is high blood pressure one of them?
Topics: health, hypertension, older-people, australia
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| UpdatedA young doctor gets to the heart of the matter in rural Australia.
Topics: people, heart-disease, hypertension, doctors-and-medical-professionals, rural, community-development, brisbane-4000
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Around one in three Australians has high blood pressure — a major risk factor for heart attacks and strokes. Do you know the key causes?
Topics: health, diabetes, heart-disease, hypertension, stroke
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| UpdatedThe potato receives a bad rap in a medical report, however Australian experts say it is important to look at diet holistically.
Topics: blood, health, hypertension, diseases-and-disorders, diet-and-nutrition, medical-research
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If there's one thing Professor Kaarin Anstey wishes more people knew, it's that warding off dementia is best started early.
Topics: health, brain-and-nervous-system, alzheimers-and-dementia, diabetes, hypertension, heart-disease, exercise-and-fitness, older-people, smoking, australia
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| UpdatedA breakthrough study on hypertension discovers the condition could be an autoimmune disease, leading to new ways to treat it, scientists say.
Topics: hypertension, health, medical-research, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedMelbourne researchers are striving to secure funding for a revolutionary therapy for hypertension - the number one risk factor for premature death in Australia. Lisa Whitehead investigates
Topics: hypertension, alternative-medicine, blood, diabetes, heart-disease, liver-and-kidneys, stroke, medical-research, pharmaceuticals, australia, melbourne-3000
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There's nothing particularly unique about people being encouraged to eat more of the food they grow themselves, if not what's grown locally, but in the Solomon Islands that push may help save lives. Islanders' diets have become overly dependent on heavily processed, imported food at the expense of local fruit, vegetables and fish. And as Joanna McCarthy reports, the result is an epidemic of diabetes, chronic disease and malnourishment.
Topics: diabetes, health, heart-disease, hypertension, solomon-islands
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Queensland medical scientists say they have found a better way to measure a person's blood pressure involving a quick test using the pulse at the wrist.
Topics: medical-research, health, diseases-and-disorders, hypertension, brisbane-4000, australia, qld
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Researchers say living near an airport is not just irritating, it is also unhealthy, in a study that showed loud noise instantly boosts a sleeping person's blood pressure.
Topics: health, diseases-and-disorders, hypertension, medical-research, sleep, science-and-technology, academic-research, united-kingdom
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Australian doctors have found that a particular type of curable high blood pressure is more common than previously thought.
Topics: hypertension, medical-research, brisbane-4000
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Works of art meant to hearten patients at a Canadian cardiac hospital as part of a study have been removed after complaints they made people feel tense and increased their blood pressure, a doctor says.
Topics: heart-disease, hypertension, offbeat, canada
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| UpdatedDiuretic drugs and stress counselling were found to be at least as effective as other remedies in helping patients stave off the fatal consequences of high blood pressure in two new studies.
Topics: hypertension, heart-disease, united-states