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Heart Failure | Congestive heart failure

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Heart Failure is generally described as a long-term illness which happens when your heart does not pump enough blood as normal flow to function the body’s parts. Over a period of time, blood and fluids will collect in your lungs and legs. This will lead you to cause shortness of breath. Medications and other treatment methods will help you to manage symptoms like swelling. For many people, heart failure is a life-time illness. Specific heart conditions will gradually leave your heart too weak or it makes it stiff to pump blood properly. These health conditions include having narrow arteries in the heart or having high blood pressure. Prompt and proper treatment might improve the symptoms of heart failure and it may help people live longer peacefully. And changes in your lifestyle can improve the quality of life. You have to try to lose weight and do exercise and use less salt and manage stress. But heart failure can be life-threatening for some people with this health condition. Some p...

Hypertension : Things you know about High Blood Pressure

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High blood pressure is a common condition in most people which usually affects the body’s arteries. High blood pressure is otherwise called hypertension. Usually the heart works to pass the blood throughout the body. If you have high blood pressure, the force of the blood passing through the artery wall is consistently too high. Generally, blood pressure is usually measured in terms of millimetres of mercury (mm Hg). Generally, hypertension is a condition in which blood pressure reading ranges from 130/80 mm Hg or higher. Scientists of Heart Association divide the blood pressure categories into four. In general, ideal blood pressure is categorized as normal. Normal blood pressure . Blood pressure ranges from 120/80 mm Hg or lower. Elevated blood pressure. The higher levels of bp range from 120 to 129 mm Hg and the lower levels of bp range is below, not above, 80 mm Hg. Stage 1 hypertension. The higher levels of bp range from 130 to 139 mm Hg or the lower levels of bp range between 80 a...