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  1. High Blood Pressure Provides links to information about highbloodpressure. Describes what bloodpressure is, highbloodpressure's effect on health, and how highbloodpressure is treated. Has links to lifestyle changes and medications used to treat highbloodpressure.
  2. Isolated Systolic HighBloodPressure
  3. High Blood Pressure During Pregnancy Learn about causes and effects of highbloodpressure during pregnancy.
  4. The Effects of HighBloodPressure Learn how highbloodpressure that isn't treated can cause serious health problems.
  5. High Blood Pressure in Children and Teens
  6. What Is HighBloodPressure? Learn what bloodpressure is, what it means when it's high, and how highbloodpressure may be treated.
  7. Hypertension (highbloodpressure): Fast Facts Learn what hypertension (highbloodpressure) is.
  8. Pregnancy and Chronic HighBloodPressure
  9. Secondary HighBloodPressure
  10. High Blood Pressure Covers causes and symptoms of highbloodpressure. Explains systolic and diastolic pressure numbers. Looks at treatment and prevention steps. Includes risks of untreated highbloodpressure such as heart attack, stroke, and kidney failure.
  11. High Blood Pressure: Checking Your BloodPressure at Home Explains why you should monitor your bloodpressure at home and how to choose a home bloodpressure monitor. Includes steps on how to take your bloodpressure at home. Covers why and how to keep a bloodpressure diary.
  12. High Blood Pressure: Make the Most of Home Monitoring Learn how using a home bloodpressure monitor can give you better control of your health.
  13. Medicine for HighBloodPressure Learn how medicine can help lower your bloodpressure.
  14. High Blood Pressure: Nutrition Tips
  15. High Blood Pressure: The DASH Diet Learn how the DASH eating plan can help lower your bloodpressure.
  16. High Blood Pressure: Over-the-Counter Medicines to Avoid
  17. Pregnancy: HighBloodPressure and Preeclampsia Learn what it means for you and your baby when you're pregnant and have highbloodpressure.
  18. High Blood Pressure: Taking Medicines Properly Covers things you can do to make it easier to take your highbloodpressure medicine. Includes working with your doctor to find the right meds, getting organized to stay on schedule, and learning about side effects and what to do if you miss a dose.
  19. High Blood Pressure: Using the DASH Diet Describes the DASH diet to help lower bloodpressure. Offers tips for following DASH guidelines, including how to add more fruits, vegetables, and low-fat dairy products. Outlines how to make DASH a habit by setting goals, getting past barriers, and finding support.
  20. High Blood Pressure: Should I Take Medicine? Guides you through the decision to take or not take medicine to treat highbloodpressure. Explains what highbloodpressure is and risks of not lowering it. Covers treatment choices and lifestyle changes.
  21. Tyrell's Story: Taking Pills for HighBloodPressure
  22. Blood Pressure Screening
  23. Deciding About Taking BloodPressure Medicine Compare the pros and cons of taking medicine for your highbloodpressure.
  24. Home BloodPressure Log
  25. Home BloodPressure Test
  26. Automated Ambulatory BloodPressure Monitoring
  27. Blood Pressure Numbers: When to Get Help
  28. 4 Heart-Healthy Changes to Lower BloodPressure Learn how healthy lifestyle changes can help lower your bloodpressure.
  29. Taking BloodPressure Medicine: How Others Decided Hear what other people thought about as they decided whether to take bloodpressure pills.
  30. Hypertensive Emergency
  31. Atrial Fibrillation Discusses atrial fibrillation, an irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia). Covers causes, including highbloodpressure and CAD. Discusses what increases your risk. Covers treatment with medicines, cardioversion, and catheter ablation.
  32. Metabolic Syndrome Discusses metabolic syndrome, a group of health problems. These problems increase the risk for diabetes and heart disease (coronary artery disease). Covers risk factors like obesity, highbloodpressure, and high cholesterol. Covers diet and exercise to improve health.
  33. Interactive Tool: Do Your BMI and Waist Size Increase Your Health Risks? Helps you check your risk of weight-related diseases such as diabetes, CAD, and highbloodpressure. Tool calculates risk using body mass index (BMI) along with your waist size and other factors. Discusses what score means and next steps.
  34. Obesity: Should I Have Weight-Loss Surgery? Guides you through decision about weight-loss surgery. Covers health problems like highbloodpressure and type 2 diabetes that can be caused by obesity. Lists reasons for and against surgery. Includes an interactive tool to help you make your decision.
  35. Sleep Apnea: Should I Have Surgery? Guides through decision to have surgery for sleep apnea. Discusses problems like depression and highbloodpressure associated with lack of treatment. Covers alternatives to surgery. Includes interactive tool to help you make your decision.
  36. Preeclampsia Covers causes and symptoms of preeclampsia. Includes regular checkups with your doctor. Looks at prevention and treatment with close monitoring and possibly bloodpressure medicine.
  37. Preeclampsia: Checkups and Monitoring
  38. Preeclampsia: Expectant Management
  39. Chronic Kidney Disease Discusses chronic kidney disease (chronic renal failure), which means your kidneys don't work the way they should. Discusses dialysis. Covers treating diabetes and highbloodpressure, which cause most cases of chronic kidney disease.
  40. Eclampsia (Seizures) and Preeclampsia
  41. High-Risk Pregnancy
  42. Why Are Blood Tests Needed With Some Medicines? Find out which types of medicines require a regular blood test and why.
  43. ACE Inhibitors and ARBs: Helping Blood Flow Better Find out why it's important to keep taking your ACE inhibitor or ARB and how to make it easier.
  44. Pulmonary Hypertension
  45. Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme (ACE) Inhibitors
  46. Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers (ARBs)
  47. DASH Diet Sample Menu
  48. Sickle Cell Test
  49. Heart Health: Where Will You Be in 5 Years? Hear what motivated other people to make changes to keep their heart healthy.
  50. Sodium Record
  51. Coronary Artery Disease and Alcohol
  52. Heart Health: Finding Support for Healthy Changes Hear how one woman found the support she needed to make heart-healthy choices.
  53. Heart-Healthy Lifestyle
  54. Izzy's Story: Living With the DASH Diet
  55. Arturo's Story: Getting Support for Making a Change
  56. Bed Rest for Preterm Labor
  57. Preterm Labor and Short Cervix
  58. Placental Abruption
  59. Obesity and Pregnancy Reviews obesity and healthy pregnancy.
  60. Preeclampsia: Creatinine Clearance Test
  61. Placenta Previa
  62. Heart-Healthy Eating
  63. Bed Rest in Pregnancy
  64. Preterm Labor
  65. Gestational Diabetes Discusses gestational diabetes (diabetes that develops during pregnancy). Discusses symptoms and how it's diagnosed. Covers treatment with healthy food choices, exercise, medicine and insulin to control blood sugar levels.
  66. Heart-Healthy Eating: Fish and Fish Oil
  67. HELLP Syndrome
  68. Pregnancy-Related Problems Briefly discusses symptoms that may show a serious problem during pregnancy. Covers vaginal bleeding, fever, and swelling. Describes emergency symptoms like shock, seizures, and leaks from your vagina. Offers interactive tool to help decide when to seek care. Also offers home treatment tips.
  69. Multiple Pregnancy: Twins or More Discusses pregnancy of carrying two or more babies. Covers identical and fraternal twins and triplets. Discusses infertility treatment, a common cause of multiple pregnancy. Discusses common tests, possible complications, and treatment options. Covers self-care.
  70. Beta-Blockers
  71. Pregnancy: Signs of Preterm Labor Find out the important differences between "practice contractions" and preterm labor.
  72. Pregnancy After Age 35
  73. Cirrhosis: Beta-Blockers for Portal Hypertension and Varices
  74. Gestational Diabetes: Reducing Risk Learn how keeping the healthy habits you used to manage gestational diabetes can protect your child in the future.
  75. Using a Home Test Kit for Protein in Urine

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