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  • Hypertension is reversible and curable, see what I did

    Hypertension is reversible and curable, see what I did

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    High blood pressure plays a contributing role in more than 15% of deaths in Nigeria, according to Research study. Although it poses no symptoms,
    High blood pressure boosts the risks of leading killers such as heart attack and stroke, as well as aneurysms, cognitive decline, and kidney failure. 35% of Nigerians have high blood pressure and don’t know it, according to  the Nigeria Heart Association. If you haven’t had yours checked in 2 years, see a doctor.
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  • Taking These Simple Steps Can Help You Overcome HYPERTENSION 100%

    Taking These Simple Steps Can Help You Overcome HYPERTENSION 100%

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    High blood pressure plays a contributing role in more than 15% of deaths in Nigeria, according to Research study. Although it poses no symptoms,
    High blood pressure boosts the risks of leading killers such as heart attack and stroke, as well as aneurysms, cognitive decline, and kidney failure. 35% of Nigerians have high blood pressure and don’t know it, according to  the Nigeria Heart Association. If you haven’t had yours checked in 2 years, see a doctor.http://www.besthealthsupport.com.ng

    While medication can lower blood pressure, it may cause side effects such as leg cramps, dizziness, and insomnia. Fortunately, most people can bring down their blood pressure naturally without medication with home remedies,   But if you want to finally say good bye to HBP .Check here and see strategies to totally Eradicate heart disease and Hypertension. Click here  now http://www.besthealthsupport.com.ng

  • The growing and scary trend of high blood pressure among working professionals in Nigeria

    The predisposing factors you need to know and how to manage your BP.

    Recent statistics emanating from young professionals in Nigeria is indicative of a very disturbing trend. Until recently high blood pressure or hypertension was associated with age and only prevalent in older people. Reports of high blood pressure in people of less than 50, 40 and 30 years calls for concern. More interesting is the fact that most of the patients reporting with high blood pressure within this age bracket are working professionals.

    In a recent study of 1097 professionals across 53 organizations to determine the age gradient of hypertension prevalence and explore the association of workplace psychosocial predictors of hypertension, the results were revealing. The prevalence of hypertension among working professionals was 31% and pre-hypertension was 45.7%. The prevalence of stage-1 hypertension in the age group of 25-35 years was 18% and 23% in 36-45 years group. The prevalence of stage-2 hypertension in the age group of 25-35 years was 8% and 11% in 36-45 years group. The results indicate that dimensions of workplace psychosocial predictors and workplace environment are associated with hypertension.

    Hypertension is sustained elevation of resting systolic BP (≥ 140 mm Hg), diastolic BP (≥ 90 mm Hg), or both.

    Risk factors for developing high blood pressure, also called hypertension:

    • Family history
      Height, hair and eye color runs in families — so can high blood pressure. If your parents or close blood relatives have had HBP, you are more likely to develop it, too. You might also pass that risk factor on to your children. That’s why it’s important for children as well as adults to have regular blood pressure checks. You can’t control heredity, but you can take steps to live a healthy life and lower your other risk factors. Lifestyle choices have allowed many people with a strong family history of HBP to avoid it themselves. Learnpost
    • Gender-related risk patterns
      A higher percentage of men than women have HBP until 45 years of age. From ages 45 to 54 and 55 to 64, the percentages of men and women with HBP are similar. After that, a much higher percentage of women have HBP than men.
    • Lack of physical activity
      Physical activity is good for your heart and circulatory system. An inactive lifestyle increases the chance of high blood pressure, heart disease, blood vessel disease and stroke. Inactivity also makes it easier to become overweight or obese. Give yourself the gift of improved health and lower blood pressure with regular, moderate-to-vigorous physical activity.

     

    • Poor diet, especially one that includes too much salt
      To care for our bodies, we all need good nutrition from a variety of food sources. A diet that’s high in calories, fats and sugars and low in essential nutrients contributes directly to poor health as well as to obesity. In addition, there are some problems that can happen from eating too much salt. Some people are “salt sensitive,” meaning a high-salt (sodium) diet raises their high blood pressure. Salt keeps excess fluid in the body that can add to the burden on the heart. While too much salt can be dangerous, healthy food choices can actually lower blood pressure.

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    • Overweight and obesity
      Being overweight increases your chances of developing high blood pressure. A body mass index between 25 and 30 is considered overweight. A body mass index over 30 is considered obese. A large population of adults are overweight or obese. Excess weight increases the strain on the heart, raises blood cholesterol and triglyceride levels, and lowers HDL (good) cholesterol levels. It can also make diabetes more likely to develop. Losing as little as 10 to 20 pounds can help lower your blood pressure and your heart disease risk. To successfully and healthfully lose weight—and keep it off—most people need to subtract about 500 calories per day from their diet to lose about 1 kg per week. Learn how to manage your weight.

     

    • Drinking too much alcohol
      Heavy and regular use of alcohol can increase blood pressure dramatically. It can also cause heart failure, lead to stroke and produce irregular heartbeats. Too much alcohol can contribute to high triglycerides, cancer and other diseases, obesity, alcoholism, suicide and accidents. If you drink alcohol, do so in moderation. If you drink, limit your alcohol consumption.

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    Possible contributing factors

    There is some connection between blood pressure and these factors but science has not proven that they actually cause high blood pressure.

      • Stress
        Being in a stressful situation can temporarily increase your blood pressure, but science has not proven that stress causes high blood pressure. Some scientists have noted a relationship between coronary heart disease risk and stress in a person’s life, health behaviors and socioeconomic status. How you deal with stress may affect other, established risk factors for high blood pressure or heart disease. For example, people under stress may overeat or eat a less healthy diet, put off physical activity, drink, smoke or misuse drugs.

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      • Smoking and second-hand smoke
        Smoking temporarily raises blood pressure and increases your risk of damaged arteries. The use of tobacco can be devastating to your health, especially if you’re already at risk for high blood pressure. Secondhand smoke — exposure to other people’s smoke — increases the risk of heart disease for nonsmokers. \
      • Sleep Apnea
        Sleep Apnea is a potentially life-threatening sleep disorder in which tissues in the throat collapse and block the airway. The brain forces the sleeper awake enough to cough or gulp air and open the trachea up again. But then, the whole cycle starts all over again. Pauses in breathing can contribute to severe fatigue during the day, increase your safety risks, and make it difficult to perform tasks that require alertness.  Sleep apnea is also a risk factor for such medical problems as high blood pressure, heart failure, diabetes and stroke.
    • Sitting for too long

    When you sit, blood flows slower and muscles burn less fat, which makes it easier for fatty acids to clog your heart. Research published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, for instance, showed that women who sit for 10 or more hours a day may have a significantly greater risk of developing heart disease than those who sit for five hours or less. It can also cause Deep Vein Thrombosis.

    A large number of working professionals sit for too long and it is not unusual to hear of people tripping and falling on the staircase. Most of those who trip have been sitting for too long.  Symptoms

    If you already have high blood pressure or hypertension, the good news is that it can be totally reversed. To learn how to manage your BP or reverse your hypertension click here. It is amazing that if you knew most of these things in the first, you wouldn’t have issues with your BP. There are solutions to HBP and there are preventive measures here. HBP is not peculiar to you. There are millions of other people suffering from HBP.

    As you may well know, if your blood pressure is not managed, it may lead to several cardiovascular diseases. CVDs are the number 1 cause of death globally: more people die annually from CVDs than any other cause.

    An estimated 17.5 million people died from CVD in 2012, representing 31% of all global deaths. Of these deaths, an estimated 7.4 million were due to coronary heart disease and 6.7 million were due to stroke. WHO.

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  • Fight hypertension, Nigerians told

    Fight hypertension, Nigerians told

    Nigerians have been urged to stop hypertension, otherwise known as high blood pressure (HBP), before it stops them.

    The Managing Director, Neimeth Pharmaceuticals, Mr Emmanuel Ekunno, who gave the advice at the World Heart Day in Lagos, said hypertension never sleeps or rests, and as such, must be fought continually to arrest it.

    Quoting the World Health Organisation (WHO), Ekunno said, there is an upsurge of hypertension and diabetes, adding: “About 50 per cent of African countries is hypertensive”.

    This, he said, was responsible for many deaths from heart and the disease.

    He identified high cost of medication as a major problem pre-disposing hypertensive to early deaths, noting that it must be tackled.

    Obesity, he said, can trigger hypertension. “Women are likely to be more obese because of sedentary lifestyle and modernisation,” he said.

    He said awareness must be created on the condition so as to control the scourge.

    According to him, people should avoid coming down with hypertension, stress and diabetes, as they are  unholy triangle.

    Ekunno said drugs should be made available to the hypertensive at affordable prices.

    He said Neimeth has slashed the price of its hypertension drugs by half (50 per cent) to enable people afford it, adding that it is also into partnership with the government to make drugs available to patients.

    “No fewer than 70 per cent of hypertensive go on drugs holiday because of their inability to afford them and lack of access to them,” Ekunno said.

    The Neimeth chief executive said the campaign-Fight the Good Fight against Hypertension (FITGAH) embarked upon by his organisation, is a wakeup call to reduce and/ or nip the condition in the bud.

    He said the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) and stakeholders have partnered with his company on the campaign, adding: “We need more collaborators to save many lives plagued by hypertension.”

  • Free hypertension, diabetes, cancer screening begins Monday

    LAGOSIANS are to enjoy another round of free screening for hypertension, diabetes mellitus and cancers of the breast, cervix and prostate, the Ministry of Health said yesterday.

    Permanent Secretary Dr. ‘Modele Osunkiyesi, in a statement by the Information Director, Mrs. Adeola Salako, urged residents to take advantage of the one-week screening to check their health status.

    She said the screening, which would be opened on Monday, October 12 by the Governor’s wife, Mrs. Bolanle Akinwunmi, would be simultaneously held in 13 local governments.

    “Screening for hypertension and diabetes will hold simultaneously in the 13 local government areas and local council development areas in the Lagos Central Senatorial District.

    “The concerned councils are: Lagos Mainland; Yaba; Surulere; Itire/Ikate; Coker/Aguda; Lagos Island; Lagos Island East; Etiosa; Etiosa East; Iru-Victoria Island and Ikoyi/Obalende.”

    Mrs. Osunkiyesi said the screening for breast and cervical cancer for women and prostate cancer for men above 45 will hold at the Apapa/Iganmu LCDA alongside the screening for diabetes and hypertension.

  • Hajj: Nigeria loses another 19 to hypertension, diabetes – Centre

    The Head of Data Unit of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria’s Medical Centre in Mecca, Dr. Jibrin Suleman has said 19 Nigerian pilgrims died of heart diseases, hypertension, diabetes and other related ailments during the just-concluded Hajj.
    The death was separate from the casualty figure recorded by the nation during last Thursday Hajj stampede in Jamarat in Mina.
    He said more than 10,000 pilgrims were treated in NAHCON’s five clinics in Madinah and Mecca for cold, malaria, body pain and other simple and non-complicated cases.
    Suleman gave the statistics while briefing the Leader of the Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Hajj, Sen. Ali Wakili when he visited the centre in Mecca.
    Suleman said the 19 deaths involved pilgrims between 65 years and above.
    On his part, the Head, Medical Team of the centre, Dr. Muhammad Bello Abdulkadir, said the clinics were stocked with necessary drugs.
    “We brought some of the drugs from Nigeria, while others were procured in Saudi Arabia,’’ he added.
    He also said NAHCON recruited 232 medical staff, including doctors, nurses, and others to man the clinics.
    He, however, complained that the centre had no ambulance to move to the pilgrims’ hostels during emergencies.
    Wakili said members of the ad hoc committee were going round NAHCON facilities in Saudi Arabia to evaluate the situation and find out challenges confronting the agency.

  • Fed Govt to partner firm on hypertension

    Fed Govt to partner firm on hypertension

    The Federal Ministry of Health is collaborating with an indigenous company to produce anti-hypertensive drugs to be made affordable and accessible to Nigerians.

    This is in line with the vision to build a resilient health system capable of responding to any health condition as well as making health care accessible and affordable to all. The partnership is under an innovative programme, tagged: Fight the Good Fight against Hypertension (FITGAH).

    Permanent Secretary, Mr. Linus Awute described the initiative as unique judging from its four-pronged strategy of awareness creation, availability of anti-hypertensive drugs, affordability of anti-hypertensive medicines and action, which involves screening and administration of medicines in designated health facilities and health outposts.

    He pledged to continue to partner Neimeth because of its positive role during the Ebola scourge.

    Neimeth Pharmaceutical was among companies that donated medicaments to the Federal Ministry of Health in support of the Ebola containment.

    Managing Director/CEO, Neimeth Pharmaceuticals Plc Ekunno Emmauel said the company decided to cut its anti-hypertensive drugs by 50 per cent to make them affordable.

    He said he was encouraged by the leadership provided by the Federal Ministry of Health under the permanent secretary.

  • FG to partner private sector against hypertension

    The Federal Government has promised to partner the private sector in the efforts to fighting hypertension in the country.

    Consequently, the ministry of Health at the weekend said it will be working closely with local private drug manufacturer in making drugs available and affordable to Nigerians, specialty in anti-hypertensive drugs.

    This ministry noted that it is in line with the National Drug Policy (NDP) and Essential Medicines list (EML) policy.

    This partnership is under an innovative programme called FITGAH (Fight the Good Fight against Hypertension).

    In a presentation of the programme, in Abuja, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Mr. Linus Awute, stated that Health Ministry is poised to support the laudable initiative as championed by Neimeth to ensure good health care delivery to Nigerians.

    Mr. Awute described the initiative as unique judging from its four-pronged strategy of: awareness creation, availability of anti-hypertensive drugs, affordability of anti-hypertensive medicines and action, which involves screening and administration of medicines.

    He further pledged to continue to partner with Neimeth because of the positive role played by the company during the Ebola scourge.

    Welcoming  guest to the occasion, the Director, Department of Food and Drugs Services, Mrs. G. M. O. Chukumah, informed that about 4.5 million Nigerians over the age of 15 are hypertensive adding that its prevalence is much in urban than rural communities.   She also reaffirmed that Neimeth’s intervention is to make drugs accessible, safe, qualitative and affordable to Nigerians.

    In his response, the MD/CEO Neimeth international pharmaceuticals plc, Pharmacist Ekunno Emmanuel said that Neimeth has decided to cut down 50% on the price of its anti- hypertensive drugs so as to make them affordable to the good people of Abuja in particular and Nigerians in general.

    He also announced that to ensure availability of its anti-hypertensive drugs and other family medicines, Neimeth is engaging in the free screening for hypertension and giving medications free for 2 months usage.

  • Hypertension can aid kidney failure

    Uncontrolled hypertension also known as high blood pressure (HBP) and diabetes have been identified as the main reasons people’s kidney fail.

    At a continuous medical education (CME) in Lagos, a Consultant Urologist, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, India, Dr. Narasimhan Subramanian, said hypertension is a major factor, which aids kidney failure.

    He warned that once a kidney fails the solution is for the patient to have regular dialysis and or transplant.

    He said: “There are four types of kidney diseases: kidney stones, infections, kidney failures and cancers of the kidneys”.

    Subramanian said drinking between three to four litres of water daily can help to put kidney stones at bay.

    “But, once the stones are formed,  the treatment is different. There are different types of stones which may require dietary restrictions. Some of them may even require certain medications to reduce the formation of stones,” he said.

    He said many of the urine infections do not necessarily affect the kidneys but “if they are untreated or are associated with medical conditions, which are not recognised, then they can affect the kidney”.

    Subramanian said early diagnosis and prompt recognition of infections in the kidneys are necessary for treatment.

    He identified hypertension, diabetes and the use of pain killers in an unregulated fashion as some of the reason for kidney problems.

    “When these are addressed, people will certainly reduce the incidences of kidney-related medical problems,” he said.

    The urologist said the concentration of salts in the kidney may lead to stones, adding: “So, if  you dilute these by forming more urine it gets washed off the system and reducing this stone formation”.

  • Firm sensitises Imo communities on hypertension

    Firm sensitises Imo communities on hypertension

    Neimeth International Pharmaceuticals Plc in partnership with a Lagos-based non-governmental organisation, Dan Ogechi Akujobi Memorial (DOAM) has taken the campaign against hypertension to four Amaimo communities in Imo State.

    A special unit of the firm championing this cause is called FITGAH or Fight the Good Fight Against Hypertension.

    FITGAH machinery creates awareness on the prevalence of the silent killer and ensures that medications to regulate the disease are available and affordable in rural settings.

    Accepting a range of anti-hypertensive products donated by Neimeth to DOAM Foundation for the management of the isolated patients for two months, the Acting Programme Manager, Sorochi Ugorji expressed her NGO’s appreciation to Neimeth for accepting to partner with them and informed the elated patients that her organisation will cater for them for twelve months.

    The MD/CEO, Neimeth, Mr. Emmanuel Ekunno, represented by Mr. Okoro Eni Nwaka, Head, Corporate Affairs, said, “Hypertension, like non-communicable diseases, has a high prevalence and is worsening in our nation. It is assuming an epidemic status leading to sudden deaths of victims, stroke, kidney damage, etc.”

    Ekunno said that Neimeth was committed to complementing the efforts of government through FITGAH—an endearing legacy of caring.

    The paramount ruler of Amaimo, His Royal Highness, Eze (Dr.) Collins Otumbadi Onuoha, ofor 1 of Umu Ofor Community expressed satisfaction over the turnout of people and thanked the organisations that put together the health programme.