Your battle against hypertension begins at the table. A few simple dietary rules can prevent and in some cases cure high blood pressure. Cut down on salt and look for foods with a significant potassium concentration. Many of these recommendations are part of the Dash diet (www.dietadash.it), which aims to prevent hypertension.

Do you suffer from high blood pressure? A little movement and some light exercise can help you regulate your blood pressure. However, some sports, such as weightlifting, require caution. Consult with your doctor to determine which exercises are safest and most effective on the basis of your medical history. This article offers some tips and parameters worth considering when deciding what sports to participate in while dealing with high blood pressure.

Your challenge: reduce high blood pressure and prevent the risk of hypertension. Here's a series of practical hints to help you achieve your goal: they're simple, everyday things, starting with a high-fiber diet and a little exercise.

Arrhythmia is a cardiac anomaly that causes irregular sequences of heartbeats; too slow, too fast, or nonlinear. In this case, not all blood pressure monitors will help you, and you should use products purpose built for this type of pathology, such as the latest generation of automatic digital monitors.

You need to buy a blood pressure monitor, but you don't know which one to choose. Here's a guide to the various types, to help you find the right one for your everyday situation: the pros and cons of each one, how accurate and easy to read they are, and whether they're safe.

When your doctor prescribes 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure or Holter monitoring, you'll spend a day wearing a recorder the size of a cigarette packet attached to a cuff and worn on your left or right arm. This system monitors your blood pressure day and night for 24 hours.

So asthma and sports can't go together? Until the Seventies, any sort of physical activity was out of bounds for people suffering from this respiratory condition, whereas nowadays, even some Olympic champions are asthmatic. Here's the story about a difficult, but not impossible, relationship.

Hypertension means high blood pressure, and is the most common cardiovascular risk factor - in other words, the probability of heart attack or stroke. In Italy, according to the most recent statistics, only 35% of people have had this checked, so each year there are many preventable cardiovascular incidents.

Cholesterol is essential for our bodies, but if there is too much in the blood and the liver cannot break it down, it causes atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases which, in its most extreme forms, can provoke heart attacks and strokes. All in all, cholesterol is one of the most controversial substances circulating in our bodies