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  • Pulmonary Function Testing Laboratory

    The Medstar Georgetown University Hospital Pulmonary Function Testing Laboratory offers comprehensive pulmonary function testing, cardiopulmonary exercise testing, and arterial blood gas assessment i

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  • Sleep Disorder Quiz

    Read the statements below. Answer true or false for each one. 1.  I feel sleepy during the day, even when I get a good night's sleep. 2.  I get very irritable when I can't sleep. 3.  I often

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  • Weight Reduction

    Unfortunately, an increasing number of people are overweight. This contributes to hypertension and diabetes which are the two major causes of chronic kidney disease. Being overweight is a component o

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  • Hypertension: Drugs used to treat hypertension

    Diuretics There are three classes of diuretic drugs that are used to treat hypertension. Most commonly used are thiazide diuretics such as hydrochlorothiazide or chlorthalidone. There is not usual

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  • Hypertension: Treatment

    Most patients with hypertension will require drugs (medications) to lower their level of blood pressure to a safe range. Importantly, medications lose part of their effect in patients who cannot adeq

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  • Hypertension: Secondary Causes

     If you have high blood pressure (hypertension) there are about nine chances out of 10 that it will be essential hypertension or primary hypertension, which implies that you do not have any clear caus

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  • Hypertension

    Hypertension refers to high blood pressure. It is important because the risks of cardiovascular disease (mainly heart attack, heart failure, stroke and chronic kidney disease) increase in patients wi

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  • Home Blood Pressure Recording

    High blood pressure is a major risk factor for all the common cardiovascular diseases including heart attack, stroke and peripheral vascular disease. It also contributes to a loss of kidney function,

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  • Dietary Salt Restriction

    Introduction We are evolved from early hominids that lived in a hot, arid climate and ate foods with a very low salt intake. Our current lifestyle with its high salt intake poses a problem for us

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  • Dietary Potassium

    A diet rich in potassium is a healthy choice for most normal people and those with high blood pressure. Indeed, a high potassium diet is part of the dietary approaches to stop hypertension (DASH) die

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