( American Academy of Sleep Medicine ) The risk of any cardiovascular disease for adults who reported sleeping five hours per day or less was more than two times higher than that of people who reported a daily sleep duration of seven hours (adjusted odds ratio = 2.20). Participants who reported sleeping nine hours or more per day also had an elevated risk of cardiovascular disease (adjusted OR ...

FORT PIERCE Members of the public filed into the Notre Dame Catholic Church in Fort Pierce on Saturday morning to get their blood sugar checked, learn how to keep their blood pressure down and where they can go if they need medical care.

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A worrying 35 per-cent of those aged 16-34 have hypertension, despite the widespread belief that it is an 'old age' problem.

MUMBAI, July 30 (Reuters) - Unichem Laboratories has received U.S. FDA approval for bisoprolol fumarate and hydrochlorothiazide in tablet form, the drug regulator's website showed on Friday.