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