A blood pressure below 90/60 mm Hg is considered low blood pressure or hypotension. However, presence of symptoms and the underlying cause of low blood pressure reading are more important.
What causes high blood pressure? In primary hypertension, no cause for raised blood pressure is evident. In secondary hypertension, the raised blood pressure is due to some other primary disease condition.
High blood pressure requires treatment with anti-hypertensive medications. This article describes the various classes of high blood pressure medications and the general approach to pharmacological management of hypertension.
Various simple home remedies can effectively raise the blood pressure in people with hypotension (low blood pressure). However, a proper medical evaluation should never be ignored.
Headaches can occasionally occur in low blood pressure. Headache in low blood pressure is believed to be caused due to inadequate perfusion of the brain and the surrounding structures.
Treatment is indicated in symptomatic low blood pressure and low blood pressure due to any serious disease condition with high risk of future complications. Low blood pressure treatment is dependent upon the cause, and hence variable.
Various vitamins are being marketed as natural or herbal remedies for high blood pressure. However, only few have been proven to be effective and are currently recommended only as adjunctive therapy for control of high blood pressure.
High Blood Pressure is one of the most common chronic diseases in the world and is responsible for millions of deaths annually. This article gives a brief overview of hypertension.
Stress has a well-known association with high blood pressure (hypertension), but a direct causal relationship between stress and blood pressure has not been established yet.
