June 12th, 2011 by
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According to statistics, there is an increase of people die from sudden cardiac arrest which simply known as heart attack. If more people how to do continuous chest compression or CPR, the is good chance of reducing this statistics.
Performing CPR is not difficult and here is a video on how you could do it :
Doctors believed that a hands only CPR method can doubles a person’s chance of surviving cardiac arrest. You can see from the video that CPR is not that difficult to do after all. It does not require you to performing a mouth to mouth contact. This method was developed by University of Arizona College of Medicine.
"This video is worth sharing," said Gordon A. Ewy, MD, director of the UA Sarver Heart Center and one of the research pioneers who developed this method.
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February 24th, 2011 by
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It is estimated that one in every four Americans has hypertension, whether they know it or not. Therefore, it is about 60 million American are at risk for this silent killer that has caused deaths around the world.
The heart has to work harder in a hypertension patient. This cause the heart muscles to enlarge in its desperation attempt to keep the blood flowing around the body. Although there have been many articles written about the causes of hypertension, I think it is worth putting them in my blog again as I hope my sharing will eventually save some lives.
Accordingly to medical studies, there is no one single cause of hypertension. The following are 8 most common causes that trigger the deadly medical condition.
1. Smoking.
2. Stress.
3. Chronic alcoholism.
4. High-sodium diet.
5. Lack of potassium or calcium in the diet.
6. Lack of exercise.
7. A family history of hypertension, heart disease, stroke or kidney failure.
8. Certain medications, including birth control pills.
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