Practical Practitioner
By: Pam Egan, FNP-C CDE
Heart Disease Articles:
- - Minimizing the risk of blood clots and pulmonary embolism
- - Clinics can help you control blood pressure, cholesterol
- - Benefits of cholesterol medication outweigh the risks
- - Stopping cholesterol-lowering medication can be deadly
- - Cold, flu medication can increase blood pressure
- - Heart Attacks: know the signs and act quickly
- - Heart disease linked to low testosterone in men
- - Increase in homocysteine level raises heart disease risk
- - Diuretics are best choice for initial treatment of hypertension
- - Pre-hypertension can double a person's risk of stroke
- - Hypertension (high blood pressure) can lead to kidney damage