Health and Lifestyle
Health and lifestyle
Blood Pressure Diary and Blood Pressure Pass (free download) for tracking your measurements What is blood pressure and what do the readings mean? Blood pressure is a measure of the force of blood flowing against the walls of the arteries.
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Fluctuating blood pressure It’s perfectly normal for your blood pressure to go up and down during the course of the day, and from one day to the next. If you’re monitoring your own blood pressure, it’s important not to get too hung up on these everyday fluctuations.
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High blood pressure: foods to avoid If you want to lower your blood pressure, or make sure it doesn’t become high in the first place, there are certain types of food and drink you should cut down on. It’s important not to get too hung up on this, but quite modest changes can make …
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Foods that help to reduce your blood pressure Eating more of certain foods and less of others can help you to achieve significant reductions in blood pressure. You don’t have to adopt a lifestyle of monastic austerity: just being a little more selective as you pick items from the supermarket shelf can make all the …
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Having a health check Many common diseases are preventable or can be treated more effectively if identified at an early stage. A health check can spot symptoms or risk factors for problems such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, kidney disease, and dementia. For example, up to 80 percent of heart attacks and strokes may …
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Using exercise to lower your blood pressure Even small changes in the amount of exercise you take can bring big changes in your blood pressure. That’s because it makes your heart stronger, so it takes less effort to pump the blood around your body, and there’s less outward pressure on the blood vessels.
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Diets that can lower your blood pressure While in most cases we don’t know what causes high blood pressure, we do know that it can be affected by diet. Some foods can reduce blood pressure, while others increase it. For example, too much sodium (i.e. salt) makes you retain more water, which in turn can …
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Understanding blood pressure reading and charts How to measure blood pressure? Blood pressure is measured in millimetres of mercury, mmHg. It consists of two numbers, such as 130/80, which we say as “130 over 80”.
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How to lower your blood pressure There are lots of ways to achieve lasting reductions in your blood pressure. Some may involve radical changes to your lifestyle; others may be relatively easy.
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High blood pressure in pregnancy Why can high blood pressure be a problem during pregnancy? Some women, around 5 percent, experience high blood pressure when they’re pregnant. This may develop before, during, or after the pregnancy. Chronic hypertension is high blood pressure that occurs either before you become pregnant, or during the first twenty …
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