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High blood pressure after 40
High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, is an important part of heart and circulatory health after 40. It often becomes something people want to understand better after a routine health check or conversation about future health.
This topic brings together useful articles, local support and relevant activities across Calderdale to help you explore blood pressure, healthy living and the wider factors connected with cardiovascular wellbeing.
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High blood pressure articles
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Are You Using These Simple Lifestyle Strategies to Decrease Your Stroke Risk?
Reviews exercise, diet, blood pressure, blood sugar, smoking and other potentially modifiable stroke-risk factors.
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Chronic Kidney Disease: A Hidden Threat to Your Heart
Explains how declining kidney function may affect blood pressure, circulation, heart rhythm and cardiovascular risk.
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Cinnamon Helps Reduce High Blood Pressure
Examines research into cinnamon supplementation and its possible effects on systolic and diastolic blood pressure.
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Discover the Cellular Medicine approach to lowering blood pressure
Discusses the proposed role of micronutrients and lifestyle factors in supporting healthy blood pressure.
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Do Potatoes Increase the Risk of High Blood Pressure and Death?
Examines research into potato consumption and its possible associations with high blood pressure and mortality.
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Eliminate hypertension and its deadly side effects naturally
Discusses foods, nutrients, hormone balance and kidney health in relation to maintaining healthier blood pressure.
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Every 1,000 steps cuts heart disease risk by 17% – even for people with high blood pressure
Reviews research connecting increased daily walking and walking pace with reduced cardiovascular events among people with high blood pressure.
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Everyday food cuts high blood pressure risk by nearly a third, new research confirms
Reviews an analysis of prospective studies examining legume consumption and the risk of developing high blood pressure.
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Fasting to Naturally Reverse High Blood Pressure
Reviews research into medically supervised fasting followed by a whole-food plant-based diet for lowering high blood pressure.
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Flashback Friday: Hibiscus Tea vs. Plant-Based Diets for Hypertension & How Much Is Too Much?
Compares hibiscus tea with dietary approaches for hypertension and considers how much hibiscus tea can be consumed safely.
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Local High blood pressure support
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CREW Heart Support Group
Community heart-support group offering exercise rehabilitation, walking and friendship, with activities intended to support recovery and reduce heart and circulatory health risks.
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Dr Julian Winter
Consultant cardiologist specialising in general cardiology, coronary artery disease, angina, heart attacks, angioplasty and stenting, atrial fibrillation and high blood pressure.
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HEARTBEAT – Brighouse Heart Support Group
Professionally instructed exercise and Tai Chi classes for adults completing cardiac rehabilitation or living with cardiac risk factors such as diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol or excess weight.
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Spire Elland Hospital Heart Treatment Clinic
Private heart clinic providing assessment, diagnosis and treatment for heart and circulatory conditions, including coronary heart disease, abnormal heart rhythms, high blood pressure and valve disease, with ECGs, cardiac testing…
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