Showing posts with label cognitive impairment and high blood pressure. Show all posts
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Thursday, May 12, 2011

The Two Most Important Medical Screening Tests You Need

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If your loved one or you have dementia, you want to make sure that your other health is good so you should have The Two Most Important Medical Screening Tests You Need.

The first medical screening that every person should have is checking your blood pressure regularly. It is one of the most important and simplest things you can do to protect your health, now and in the future. A lot of
people think more men than women have high blood pressure which is also called hypertension, but in reality about half of the 75 million people who have high blood pressure in the United States are women. More women than men have died of heart disease every year since the early 1980s.

One of the risk factors for developing heart disease is having high blood pressure. When your blood pressure is higher than 140/90, it puts added stress on your heart.. Many experts believe 120/70 is a healthy target blood pressure for you to have. In fact the recommended blood pressure reading for a normal blood pressure has decreased in recent years. No longer is 120/80 considered normal. Now this is considered pre-hypertension or pre high blood pressure.

When a medical professional takes your blood pressure, he usually uses an arm cuff. Now there are special devices that the average person can use to take his blood pressure. You should have your blood pressure checked every time you go to the doctor. Even children should have their blood pressure checked. You can also have your blood pressure checked at many pharmacies now. You can also buy a simple device to check your own blood pressure. It should be noted that

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Friday, December 19, 2008

For elderly, blood pressure spikes mar thinking

If you or a loved one have high blood pressutr and are at all concerbed avout developing dementia, then you must read this
Reuters
By Will Dunham

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For elderly people with elevated blood pressure, further spikes in blood pressure levels can affect their ability to think clearly, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

The findings offer another reason for people with high blood pressure, also known as hypertension, to get the condition under control -- for the sake of their cognitive functioning as well as many other health reasons, they said.

Researchers led by North Carolina State University psychology professor Jason Allaire tracked 36 people, average age 73, in the Detroit area, having each of them take blood pressure reading and take a series of cognitive tests twice daily for 60 days. The tests assessed things like thinking abilities, pattern recognition and problem solving.

For people whose systolic blood pressure was typically 130 or above, their cognitive scores suffered on......read the whole article

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