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	<description>All about high blood pressure, asthma, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. In an easy-to-understand format.</description>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s someone who can help YOU earn a living online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I keep getting questions from my family and friends asking what I do for a living, why I sit in front of the computer all day, why I don&#8217;t go back to a &#8217;safe, secure job&#8217; like the ones I had till not so long ago.
I even got a couple of questions about earning a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Predicting the chances of severe asthma attacks&#8230;can it be done?</title>
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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. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Types of asthma treatments</title>
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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 &#8216;Quick relief medicines&#8217; or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review - The Silent Killer Exposed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re onto a product review this time. 
I&#8217;ve read several books on how to reduce high blood pressure. There&#8217;s a fair bit of good stuff about hypertension available. However, one book stood head and shoulders above the rest. It&#8217;s called &#8216;The Silent Killer Exposed.&#8217; 
Written by a medical researcher called Frank Mangano, it describes an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lower blood pressure the healthy way</title>
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Mention high blood pressure and the first thing that comes to mind is medication. Now, it is true that your doctor will probably prescribe drugs to bring your blood pressure down to acceptable levels. 
However, your doctor will also likely tell you to take up regular exercise, particularly if you have no other medical problems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dealing with high blood pressure</title>
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If you are diagnosed with high blood pressure, one of the first things your doctor will tell you is to cut down salt intake. 
For many people, those words bring on visions of being forced to survive on bland, tasteless food for the rest of their life. That needn&#8217;t be so. If you give it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to lower your blood pressure</title>
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There are very good reasons why high blood pressure is called the silent killer. Many times, hypertension doesn&#8217;t show up as a problem at all. Not for a long time. All the same, it is capable of causing strokes, damaging kidneys, bringing on heart attacks and much more. 
Here are several quick tips on how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What you should know about blood pressure</title>
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The term blood pressure refers to the pressure exerted by blood on the walls of blood vessels.
The pressure is measured relative to atmospheric pressure. If atmospheric pressure is 760 mm Hg and the pressure within the arteries is 860 mm Hg, the blood pressure is said to be 100 mm Hg, i.e., 100 units above [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The myth of &#8216;normal&#8217; blood pressure and why you should relax at the doctor&#8217;s</title>
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Did you know that normal blood pressure is more of a range than a fixed point?
That&#8217;s because there are many factors that can affect your blood pressure. Things like your mood, whether you just had a heavy meal, your rate of breathing, overall level of fitness, whether you exerted yourself physically, smoked, had alcohol and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the Health Quadrant blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi and welcome to the HealthQuadrant.com blog!
I&#8217;ll be posting many useful tips, ideas and suggestions related to the four disease areas we cover &#8212; high blood pressure, Parkinson&#8217;s disease, Alzheimer&#8217;s disease and asthma.
Much of the initial posts will be about high blood pressure, but the others will follow soon. This blog is meant to supplement [...]]]></description>
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