
Habits And Hypertension An increased risk of high blood pressure, especially the malignant variety, is incurred by smoking and tobacco use. Nicotine from tobacco chewed or smoked is a vasoconstrictive agent, aggravating the blood vessel narrowing that is the immediate cause of the hypertension . Alcohol ...

Although many of my patients have had success with the eight step following program for hypertension, I only use the general guidelines discussed below after reviewing a patient’s personal and medical history, performing a thorough examination and evaluating the laboratory studies to make sure that the program will ...