Category Archives: Cardio & Blood-Cholesterol

When confronted with a difficult threatening situation (“stressor,” in 1 language of the stress physiologist), both animals and humans respond a similar manner—the so-called or flight response. Your heart rate a blood pressure increase, blood vessels in your skin constrict, … Continue reading →

The concept of a psychological or personality component to heart disease was advanced in 1964 when two researchers, Dr. Meyer Friedman and Dr. Ray Rosenman, developed the concept of a “type A” personality. Type A people always seem to be … Continue reading →

What is the extent of the link between hypertension and obesity? There is a very close link between obesity, particularly abdominal obesity, and hypertension; it has been reported that up to two-thirds of cases of hypertension are linked with obesity. … Continue reading →

In this defect, the origins of the two arteries from the heart are reversed: the aorta comes from the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery emerges from the left ventricle. Thus, a portion of the person’s blood recirculates through the … Continue reading →