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		<title>Using Home Blood Pressure Monitors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blood Pressure Monitors Before we look at how to use a home blood pressure digital monitor, and which ones are the best, let&#8217;s first consider what the blood pressure readings will mean. These figures are taken from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. &#160; Systolic Pressure Diastolic Pressure Normal &#60; 120 &#60; 80 Pre- [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could Pre-eclampsia be an autoimmune disease?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston say they have found evidence that pre-eclampsia my be an autoimmune disease.&#160; Scientists were able to induce symptoms similar to pre-eclampsia in pregnant mice by administering auto-antibodies that were isolated from women suffering from pre-eclampsia. In animals at least, the researchers were able to prevent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onetwentyovereighty.com/blood-pressure-pregnancy/could-pre-eclampsia-be-an-autoimmune-disease/</link>
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		<title>Choosing a Home Blood Pressure Monitor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Choosing a blood pressure monitor for use at home is not an easy task.  Here are some tips to consider: The best option for most people is a digital home blood pressure monitor.  While they are not as accurate as the mercury devices you see at your doctors, they don’t require the use of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pregnancy and high blood pressure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pregnant women can be at risk of various problems that they would probably not be worried about if they were not pregnant.  These problems can include things like gestational diabetes, but also high blood pressure. Obviously, with the delicate nature of blood vessels, high blood pressure can be a big problem during pregnancy, as it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blood Pressure Experiments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let me just first state that I am not a medical doctor.  The experiments I have carried out on this site were carried out to satisfy my own curiosity, as I do have scientific training.  I do not recommend you try any of these yourself – consult your doctor if you have blood pressure problems. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Effects of exercise on my blood pressure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About a year ago, I decided to get into shape, and lose some weight.  One of the side effects of losing weight and eating healthily was that my blood pressure dropped from around the 140/90 area down to 115/70 and below.  During the last year I have done a lot of weight training and aerobic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Low Blood Pressure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Low blood pressure is given the medical term &#8220;Hypotension&#8221; (as opposed to hypertension which is high blood pressure). Low blood pressure occurs when the pressure in the blood vessels falls below normal limits. Although different sources have different criteria for low blood pressure, we can assume that anything below 90/60 is low. It is very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onetwentyovereighty.com/problems/low-blood-pressure/low-blood-pressure/</link>
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		<title>Effects of decaffeinated coffee on my blood pressure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In these experiments, I used an upper arm cuff home blood pressure monitor to measure my blood pressure on an empty stomach, after drinking a large cup of decaffeine coffee. I used a filter coffee machine to prepare a large cup of coffee, made with decaffeinated ground coffee. The process was exactly the same as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Effects of caffeine coffee on my blood pressure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In these experiments, I used a home blood pressure monitor (upper arm cuff), to measure my blood pressure in the morning, on an empty stomach, after drinking a large cup of caffeine coffee. To prepare for each set of readings, I sat down for 5 minutes before taking the first reading. The coffee used in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Effect of lying down, sitting, and standing on blood pressure.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In these experiments, I used a home blood pressure monitor (upper arm cuff), to measure my blood pressure in the morning, on an empty stomach. To prepare for each set of readings, I got into position, and waited quietly for 5 minutes before taking the first reading. I then took a minimum of 3 readings [...]]]></description>
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