High Blood Pressure during Pregnancy

Blood pressure will change through the various stages of your pregnancy as your body goes through a variety of changes. It will be checked by your midwife (midwives are specialists in pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum and women’s sexual and reproductive health) at your visits. If you have high blood pressure in pregnancy before week 20 it’s possible that it was a         Read More …

My Fight Against Flab – IV Eating-Right

As I mentioned earlier, I have been reasonably active through the years. The weight-reduction too has been proportional to the sustained workout intensity. I always enjoyed good food and saw no reason to curb the enthusiasm if I was exercising regularly. Over the passing years I have realized that my body is getting more stubborn and it is simply not         Read More …

Systolic Hypertension

low blood pressure What is Systolic Hypertension? Systolic hypertension is defined as an elevated systolic blood pressure (SBP). If the systolic blood pressure is elevated (>140) with a normal (<90) diastolic blood pressure (DBP), it is called isolated systolic hypertension (ISH). Cause of Systolic Hypertension This type of high blood pressure is more common in older adults, especially older women. In fact, the         Read More …

Intracranial Hypertension

What is Benign Intracranial Hypertension? Intracranial hypertension (IH) is the general term for the neurological disorders in which cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure within the skull is too high. Old names for IH include Benign Intracranial Hypertension and Pseudotumor Cerebri. Intracranial hypertension can be divided into two categories: Acute IH and chronic IH. Acute IH often occurs as the result of         Read More …

HIV Medications

HIV medication help HIV medications under ART HIV treatment with its medicines is called antiretroviral therapy (ART). People on ART take a combination of HIV medicines (called an HIV regimen) every day. A person’s initial HIV regimen generally includes three HIV medicines from at least two different drug classes. ART can’t cure HIV, but HIV medicines help people with HIV live longer healthier         Read More …

Weight Loss: 10 Simple Change in Lifestyle to Lose Weight

weight loss Most experts agree that a safe and healthy rate of weight loss is 500 grams to 700 grams per week. Modification in eating habits along with regular exercise is the most effective way to lose weight over the long term. It is also the ideal way to ensure that the weight stays off. Tips to lose weight in a healthier         Read More …

Pulmonary Hypertension: Symptoms and Treatment

What is pulmonary hypertension? Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is an increase in blood pressure in the blood vessels that carry blood to the lungs. It is a rare lung disorder but a serious health problem. Pulmonary blood pressure is normally a lot lower than systemic blood pressure (delivering oxygen throughout the body from heart). Normal pulmonary-artery pressure is about 14 mm         Read More …

Eyesight

What is eyesight? Sight is the perception of light that is received by the eye(s) from objects in a scene, sensed through the eyes, then processed by the brain. Sight is also called eyesight, seeing and vision. The later parts of this process are also called visual perception. Types of vision problems Most common adult vision problems include blurred vision         Read More …

My Fight Against Flab – II Exercising Often

Exercising regularly has tonnes of benefits, no doubt you have heard. If you do not exercise at all, then first you should read about dangers of being a couch-potato. But how do you handle yourself when you understand the benefits but other things get in the way! Being in the Zone My body is such that I feel less hungry         Read More …