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Blood pressure: Dr Christopher Cannon, a cardiologist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, reviews high blood pressure.
PreHypertension: Dr Barry Ramo, a cardiologist, discusses how heart disease causes cardiovascular disease. He also describes Prehypertension, which is essentially early hypertension, with borderline high blood pressure.
High Blood Pressure: Dr. Carolyn Kaplan discusses high blood pressure.
Dr. Brian Kessler reviews the medications used in high blood pressure, including ARB's, ACE inhibitors, beta blockers, alpha blockers, and calcium channel blockers.
Dr. Suzanne Oparil, a noted cardiologist, reviews a quiz about high blood pressure, or hypertension.
High Blood Pressure is commonly called the silent killer, since there are usually no symptoms from high blood pressure. However, High Blood Pressure causes very serious effects on multiple organ systems, including the cardiovascular system. This animated video reviews the effects of high blood pressure.
A study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine showed that in men with hypertension (or high blood pressure) that moderate alcohol intake of about 1-2 glasses a day lowered risk of heart attack stroke and death.