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Hypertension Defined

Pertension is the persistently elevated arterial blood pressure. is the most common public health problem in developed countries. phasis on lifestyle modifications has given diet a prominent role for both the primary prevention and management of hypertension.

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Mo. obesity rate rises for third straight year

Published August 21, 2008, 8:09 am, Park Hills Daily Journal

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A report issued Tuesday says that Missouri’s obesity rate is rising and without increased government funding and community involvement, there’s a fat chance that trend will change anytime soon.

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Bayer and Onyx Begin Enrollment in STORM Trial Studying Nexavar as Adjuvant Therapy for Patients With Liver Cancer

Published August 21, 2008, 5:00 am, PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced the companies have begun enrolling patients in the STORM Sorafenib as Adjuvant Treatment in the Prevention of Recurrence of Hepatocellular Carcinoma trial.

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Stress can be painful, or looked at as an opportunity

Published August 21, 2008, 1:43 am, Republican-American

MIAMI — After Silvia Clarke lost a sales executive job she had held for 18 years, the Miami Shores, Fla., wife and mother of two worried about how she would support her family of four as the household's primary wage earner.

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Aurobindo Pharma Receives Tentative Approval From US FDA For Losartan Potassium Tabs

Published August 20, 2008, 11:49 pm, Nasdaq

(RTTNews) - Thursday, Aurobindo Pharma said that the company received tentative approval to manufacture and market Losartan Potassium tablet from US Food & Drug Administration.

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Oklahoma obesity rate on the increase

Published August 20, 2008, 9:07 pm, The Shawnee News-Star

The percentage of Oklahomans considered obese rose for the third straight year as the state moved up to a tie for eighth place among the fattest states in the country. The nonprofit Trust for America’s Health listed Oklahoma’s adult obesity rate at 28.1 percent in its “F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies are Failing in America” report released Tuesday. Oklahoma had a 26.8 percent obesity rate ...

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Surgeons Perform First Two Incision-free Procedures for Obesity in the Western United States

Published August 20, 2008, 2:31 pm, Newswise

Doctors at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles have performed the first two non-surgical procedures in the Western United States that restrict the size of the stomach to treat obesity. The experimental procedures were part of the TOGA Pivotal Trial, a Phase III, multi-center study evaluating an incision-free procedure using the TOGA System (transoral gastroplasty).

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Monitoring heart patients at home improves care

Published August 20, 2008, 12:08 pm, The San Luis Obispo Tribune

How was it, Dr. Philip Madvig wondered, that Kaiser Permanente patients with congestive heart failure in the Sacramento, Calif., region were doing so much better than their counterparts elsewhere in the region? The answer he found would soon launch a new approach to care that's spreading throughout HMO's. It started in 2006, when Madvig, associate executive director for the Permanente Medical ...

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Monitoring heart patients at home improves care

Published August 20, 2008, 12:02 pm, Belleville News-Democrat

How was it, Dr. Philip Madvig wondered, that Kaiser Permanente patients with congestive heart failure in the Sacramento, Calif., region were doing so much better than their counterparts elsewhere in the region?

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Okla. Obesity Rate Up For 3rd Straight Year

Published August 20, 2008, 10:08 am, KOCO 5 Oklahoma City

The percentage of Oklahomans considered obese rose for the third straight year as the state moves up to a tie for eighth place among the fattest states in the country.

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Kansas obesity tops 25 percent

Published August 20, 2008, 8:51 am, The Newton Kansan

Kansas has joined the ranks of states with an adult obesity rate higher than 25 percent, according to a new report released on Tuesday.

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