High blood pressure and stroke are related to each other. High blood pressure is known to be the most significant factor in a stroke attack. It actually increases the risk factor. Blood pressure can be defined as a measurement of the force that’s exerted on the walls of artery via the pumping blood. In case, [...]

Just because you are experiencing headaches does not necessarily mean that you have a headache or migraine condition. Instead, your pain could be a symptom of a potentially life threatening disease, which needs treatment. This is why it is always recommended that you get treatment from a doctor for persistent or severe headaches instead of [...]

The clinical picture depends upon underlying causes, like acute GN (allergic disorder of kidneys), sudden acute rise in blood pressure (malignant hypertension), or it may be a case of acute infection of the kidneys (pyelonephritis), or an advanced case of dehydration (due to repeated vomiting, diarrhoea, etc.), or due to loss of blood as a [...]

Why is your blood pressure low? As a doctor with an interest in the subject, I’m often asked if a low blood pressure is normal or if such a reading indicates some abnormal process in the body? In fact – it can be difficult to precisely define what we mean by low BP. It all [...]

Stress is pressure from the outside world that causes emotional and physical strain on a person. People often have the connotation that one of the factors causing a stroke is stress. But can stress really cause stroke? Psychotherapists say that we are all exposed to a certain level of stress at any single time, making [...]