Think of a person suffering from high blood pressure (although since HBP is nearly always symptom-less, it’s really hard to picture anyone actually suffering from it, more like they just have it), and you are likely to picture an old person, right, and most usually a man? And it is true that the largest group […]
The mantra these days seems to be that if you’ve been diagnosed with high blood pressure, as so many of you have, the lower you can get your blood pressure, the better, which often demands the use of several medications since one alone is seldom effective. Based on a very much-hyped study called the SPRINT […]
A great deal of the buzz at this year’s Alzheimer’s Association International Conference which just wrapped up in London, England, has been about preventing dementia, particularly Alzheimer’s disease, which is the most common form of dementia. And that’s a good thing because given how meager the returns have been so far from treating dementia, it’s time […]