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Tweet The Ministry of Health submitted a study showing that around 39% of Jordanians aged 25 years and above suffer from high blood pressure. Around 18% of the participants in the study were between 25-34 years old while 23.7% were between 45 and 54 years old. Due to this study; Mohammad Tarawneh director of the Health [...] Tweet Health experts said on Wednesday that around 26% of Jordanians suffer from high blood pressure, or vascular hypertension. According to Ayman Hammoudeh, a consultant interventional cardiologist, about 1.5 million citizens suffer from hypertension, 50% of them do not know they have it. People should follow a healthy lifestyle to prevent hypertension because its risk increases [...] Tweet UAE doctors are warning that the public is eating too much salt, which increasing their risk of developing high blood pressure which leads to heart disease, stroke, kidney disease and diabetes. High salt intake is estimated to be the cause of around one third of hypertension cases, worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends an average [...] Tweet The first joint meeting between the Emirates Cardiac Society and the American College of Cardiology formed the basis of the growing incidence of heart diseases, which is ranked as the number one cause of death in the Gulf States. Recent studies show that more than half of the population in the Gulf states suffers from abnormal [...] Tweet The fourth and last phase of Dubai Municipality’s public health campaign under the slogan “Together for a healthier lifestyle” was held in the jogging track of Jumeirah Open Beach recently. The campaign addressed weighty matters like obesity and related diseases such as diabetes, high cholesterol and blood pressure. Free check ups and consultations were offered by [...] Tweet The National Institutes of Health did a study, aiming to see if the dual drug therapy could reduce the cardiovascular events in diabetes patients at particularly high risk of serious heart problems due to additional risk factors, such as obesity and high blood pressure. All subjects in the 5,518-patient trial took Merck & Co’s cholesterol-reducing Zocor, [...] Tweet People as young as 45 with high blood pressure are more likely to have memory troubles, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday in a study suggesting aggressive early treatment of the condition may pay huge dividends. They said people with high diastolic blood pressure — high readings on the bottom number of the blood pressure reading — [...] |
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