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Eating Too Much Salt: Study
A new report from the U.S. Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention has found that 90 percent of Americans are eating more salt than is recommended.

Vitamin D, Calcium Supplements Safe for Women's Arteries
According to a new study published in the journal Menopause, moderate doses of calcium and vitamin D supplements don't raise women's coronary artery calcium levels. 
Some Obese People Not at Risk for Heart Disease, Diabetes: Study
Researchers say people who are 30 pounds or more overweight who do not have metabolic risk factors such as high cholesterol or hypertension do not have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease like the rest of the obese population.

Both Stenting, Surgery Safe for Preventing Strokes
According to a recent study, both invasive surgery and less invasive stenting are safe and effective ways to prevent strokes.

Youth With Anxiety Prone to Heart Disease as Adults: Study
Researchers in Sweden are reporting that men diagnosed with anxiety in their teens or early adulthood are more than twice as likely to have a heart attack or heart disease later in life than those who are not diagnosed with anxiety. 

 
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Exforge

Hypertension will lead  to cardiovascular diseases such as stroke, blindness, kidney failure, heart failure and many more and it’s important to keep BP at target goal. New treatment strategies are needed.

Blood Pressure (BP) Aims: Your Bp should at least maintain to lower then 140/90 if you have no other complications.  This review analyses one of these strategies, which is the development of effective and safe combination therapy. Indeed, at least two antihypertensive agents are often needed to achieve blood pressure control. Exforge^® (Novartis) is a new drug combination of the calcium channel blocker, amlodipine, and the angiogenesis II receptor blocker, valsartan.   World wide known as Exforge.  With Exforge you could get your Bp Control better if your Bp not at goal despite treatment.

Doses Available: Exforgre 5/80 , Exforge 10/160 Exforge 5/160

Evidence review: The amlodipine/valsartan combination is an association of two well-known antihypertensive products with specific targets in cardiovascular protection, namely calcium channel blockade and antagonism of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system. This kind of association, with neutral metabolic properties and significant antihypertensive efficacy, could be a useful new antihypertensive product. Currently available data have shown that this new combination is well-tolerated and effective even in severe hypertension.

Clinical value: One of the Active compound Valsatran has been used in many Cardiovascular trials that prove to Reduce incidents of Heart failure, MI, Stroke, Regress Left Ventricular and improve in Renal safety hence prevented many Cardio events. With this new combination EXFORGE which will help you reduce BP at the same time is

Cardio Vascular protective to your hypertension management.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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