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The European Respiratory Agency recently published the results of a three year study on asthma patients. The researchers came up with a new type of score - labeled the ‘Tenor Risk Score’ - which they say could help identify people who are most at risk of going down with very severe, difficult-to-treat attacks of asthma.

This score takes numerous factors into account such as age, weight, breathing tests, exercise response, medical history, smoking frequency and more.

The scorecard can range from 0 to 18. Patients with a score of 0-4 are considered low risk. A score of 5-7 indicated moderate risk and these patients were three and a half times more likely to have a severe asthma attack than those in the low risk category.

Those with a score of 8 or more were about 12 times more likely to have such attacks than the low risk group.

The ability to predict severe asthma attacks can be a huge benefit to patients, healthcare providers and others as well.

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In some people, the airways or bronchial tubes are very sensitive to irritants. This leads to the inflammatory condition called asthma. Asthma patients show mild to extreme difficulty in breathing during an attack.

Medication available today is fairly effective at treating asthma. These medications are of two kinds. One is called ‘Quick relief medicines’ or relievers. As the name imples, they relieve the symptoms and help to restore normal breathing.

The other type are the ‘Long term control medicines’ and act as preventers.

When asthma symptoms worsen, the patient is usually given quick relief medication. Typically, these medicines produce relief in just a few minutes.

The preventers are taken regularly (usually daily) and need to be consumes for a long period of time. They bring the chronic nature of the symptoms under control and help prevent asthma attacks.

We’re onto a product review this time.

I’ve read several books on how to reduce high blood pressure. There’s a fair bit of good stuff about hypertension available. However, one book stood head and shoulders above the rest. It’s called ‘The Silent Killer Exposed.’

Written by a medical researcher called Frank Mangano, it describes an all-natural way to lower your blood pressure. As far as I know, this method is unique — never came across anything like it elsewhere.

The author says that one in four adults in the US has high blood pressure — and many are not even aware of it. As you know, high b.p. can lead to all sorts of problems including cardiac arrests, strokes and kidney failure, to name only a few.

He says it is possible to lower your blood pressure without using costly prescription drugs many of which have dangerous side effects. And he goes on to show you exactly how you can do it.

I don’t have hypertension now (had it earlier), but a friend does. In fact, I first heard of this book from her. She used Frank’s method the way he describes it, and brought her blood pressure to normal range over a three month timeframe. She did it in consultation with her doctor and the doc was quite impressed with her rapid progress.

You’ll get more information on this book right here:
The Silent Killer Exposed

Here are the pros and cons I observed about this book:
Pros:
* Written in a clear, lucid style that’s easy to understand. It is not like reading a stuffy medical treatise which would certainly have put me off.
* It is obvious that the book is very well researched. He has gone to great lengths to ensure that everything you need to know about this method is included.
* Does a good job of sensitizing people to the risks of hypertension and the medicines that are supposed to cure it.
* The method actually works (I know about one case myself; plus there are testimonials from loads of others on his site.)

Cons:
* This is delivered as an electronic document (it’s a PDF file). Many people, me included, generally don’t like to read on-screen. I’d rather curl up with a book with a mug of my favorite beverage in hand. On the other hand, because this is a PDF file, you get instant access to it. No s & h charges and no waiting for anything to arrive in the mail. Plus, if you’re willing to go through a bit of extra trouble, you can always print it out.

Anyway, if either you or someone known to you is suffering from high blood pressure, you want to check this out right now. Click here to get more details.

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