About Alzheimer’s Disease Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative brain disorder named after German physician Alois Alzheimer, who first described it in the year 1906. Dementia is a general term used for the depicting loss of memory and other intellectual abilities which are serious enough to interfere with daily life. Alzheimer’s Disease: The Most Common Form [...]

Blood pressure is the force of the blood pushing against the walls of the arteries. Blood pressure is the result of two forces: from the heart as it pumps blood into the arteries and throughout the circulatory system, and the force of the arteries as they resist blood flow. Blood pressure is measured by putting [...]

What Hypertension? Hypertension is a fancy medical word for high blood pressure. Your blood carries nutrients and oxygen to your body, and to take the waste, such as carbon dioxide. The heart pumps blood through “pipes” – the blood vessels called arteries and the blood returns to heart via veins. Blood pressure is the “push” [...]