what is the effect of valsalva maneurver on heart function?
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The Valsalva Manoeuvre will slow your heart rate down, or it should. It's a manoeuvre that is like having a bowel movement. Someone will ask you to "bear down, like you're having a bowel movement", then put electrodes on you to monitor your heart rate. They will ask you to "bear down" and then relax, "bear down" and relax a few times to get a good understanding on your ECG. You can try it yourself - "bear down" like I said, continually monitoring your pulse or HB with your fingers over top of your carotid artery, or your wrist. Anywhere you know there is a pulse to be felt. Your heart rate should slow down and then resume it's normal pattern after you stop the "bearing down". Hope I helped...GOOD LUCK!
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none salt cause high bloodpressure and stress
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It is not a common side effect, though it is considered a rare one. I would call your doctor, as water retention is a rare side effect of this medication
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I've got help for you! There is a vitamin called "Horse Chestnut."  No, it's not made from horses, it comes from a plant with that name. Anyway, it been shown to help diminish varicose veins and promote circulation. Do a search online and you can read more about it what it does, and you can also order it.
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Hypertension can multi-system effects. It is a risk factor for stroke and heart disease. Hypertension can increase the workload that the heart has to pump against, the heart overtime can develop what health care professionals call left ventricular hypertrophy (the left ventricle of the heart becomes overly thickened) which can lead to heart failure. Patients with heart failure will present with shortness of breath, fatigue, swelling of the legs, chest  pain etc due to the heart's inability to pump adequate amounts of oxygenated blood to meet the the body's physiological needs. \n\nHypertension is a modifiable risk factor for heart disease and stroke which can be controlled with lifestyle modification such as diet and exercise, medications and proper care of a trained healthcare professional.  Hope this helps.
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my wife takes it when she feels chest pain coming on...she puts one small tablet under her tongue,  the nitroglycerine dissolves instantly and expands her arteries to allow more blood flow,,,she feels warmth throughout her body when she takes it and afterwards has a mild headache that dissipates in a little while..my wife has already had a 5 artery bypass, but has restricted arteries in her neck that the doctors are reluctant to try and open up due to the risk of stroke...
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Lol, swaps_81 is reading another book different subect.\n\nNitric Oxide does not give many long term benefits from what i have see, you will get great pump while working out with it becuase it is mainly vascular in that i will relax your veins allowing more blood to pump through your system but i do not think it will give you any real long term gains. Also, i got a week feeling when using it such as when you drink to much caffien.\n\nGive it a try and can not hurt you unless you are refering to the same kind of nitric oxide that swaps_81 is refering too
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Aortic valve calcification does not need to be treated at all unless it is causing significant impairment of the valve's function.  Typically this would manifest as aortic valve stenosis, meaning the leaflets of the valve become stiff and don't open well.  When this happens, it's like putting your thumb over the end of a hose.  The heart has to work much harder to pump the blood out through the valve.  The amount of impairment caused by the calcification can be determined by an echocardiogram.  If you do not have significant stenosis yet, there are very few things you can do medically that are proven to slow down progression of the valve disease.  Some recent smaller studies have suggested that the class of cholesterol lowering medications called 'statins' (Lipitor, Zocor, Crestor, etc.) may help slow down progression of aortic stenosis, but other studies have not found a signficant difference between statins and placebo in this regard.  I looked through the literature and could not find any studies about omega-3-fatty acids for aortic stenosis, so there does not appear to be any evidence that this is (or is not) an effective treatment at this time.  One other option is something called balloon valvuloplasty wherein a doctor passes a deflated balloon across the valve and then inflates it in order to "crack" the calcification and improve valve function.  Unfortunately, the vast majority of patients are back to square one after a year and so at this time this procedure is ONLY recommended in select patients who are either very old or very sick and therefore not good candidates for surgery.  Hope that helps answer your question to some degree...
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From personal experience from using NON anabolic steriods(corticosteriods) as an immunosuppressant after a lung transplant, they do cause weight gain (puffy cheeks and weight gain the belly), high blood pressure, water retention and muscle loss and the obvious immunosuppression.
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I know someone who used it. 2-3 times per day for about 10min each time.\n\nOften used AFTER a training session, the rider would fall asleep during the session (lack of oxygen).\n\nWe didn't notice any huge improvements. However we didn't do any blood testing to confirm physiological changes.\n\nIt's pretty easily accessable nowdays. Try it for yourself.
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1. valves in veins help prevent the back flow of blood as it returns blood back to the heart even if it is against gravity\n2. skeletal muscles with plenty of tone, ie calf muscles, can help "massage "the veins, (especially if varicose) help prevent them from collapsing so that the max blood is in venous return to heart. \n3.blood pH affects blood pressure; blood pressure affects venous return......\n\nblood is naturally slightly alkaline 7.34; alkalosis can makes bp drop. Women in labor who have hyperventelated may make both mom and baby in imbalance!  Mom in alkalosis and baby in acidosis. Alkalosis can cause BP to drops and so fetus does not get the adequate oxygen needed.  So fetus blood accumulates CO2, making fetus in acidosis from the carbonic acid produced when carbon dioxide and water mix and make acid.  By mother breathing in a paper bag (inhaling CO2) her and neutralizing alkaline blood by making more carbonic acid in her blood, her pH returns it to its normal slighly alkaline level again, BP of mom goes back up and pumps the O2 back across the placenta to the baby whose acidosis goes away. They both have returned to homeostasis...so prevent hyperventilation in a laboring woman and prevent both alkalosis and acidosis in both of them.
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It can get as high as 230/180. But by then he may have a stroke, annurism or heart attack at any moment. Most likely it can be lowered a few natural ways. I am not a doctor but then again, all they do is give you drugs. You can send him the following things to help alleviate the pressure: Omega 3/Fish Oil (pharmeceutical grade) from the Scandanavian region. It naturally thins the blood for better circulation. Aged garlic added to his foods. High antioxidant foods such as the berry goup. Blueberries, Rasberries, Strawberries, Blackberries. Also spinach. He also needs plenty of the amino acid Arginine found in all forms of nuts. It improves the valve function of the heart. When he sleeps, elevate his feet with pillows. And last but not least REST, REST.
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There are no direct symptoms of Cholestrol(Cx). High Cx leads to clogging of the arteries (atherosclerosis), eventually leading to heart congestion.\n\nThe symptoms of heart congestion could be breathlessness on exercise, stress OR gastric acid like burn OR left hand pain ... \n\nI wouldnt worry about that unless some diagnostic procedure like ECG shows that ...\n\nDo this: \nSTOP HIGH Cx food like butter, eggs, milk, ..\nStart fruits, veggies and so on ..\n\nBTW,\nCholestrol is used by the body for synthesis of Testosterone (M) / Estrogen (F) ...
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Hey. That's isoxsuprine. It's used for tocolysis. That is, controlling premature uterine contractions for women in premature labor.  Also, since it relaxes smooth muscle, the muscular part of arteries relaxes as well potentially leading to hypotension. Signs to watch out for include increased heart rate and decreased respiratory rate as well as low blood pressure. However, the side effects I mentioned are encountered more commonly with the intravenously administered form of the drug. If you're taking the oral form, fewer occurrences of the side effects are noted. Take note however, that the drug has very minimal effects once active labor sets in. That's when your cervix has dilated to at least 4cm or your uterine contractions have become regular, more frequent, and stronger.
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This is a great medication, I was around when it was just introduced in the clinical setting and after, there are a lot of people who have regained lung volumes! Thought never to be able to happen with copd patients.\nThe answer is right about not using atrovent, what it does is because sprieva is a longer acting atrovent they compete for the same receptor and if you have too much atrovent in there the spireva is just wasted and useless.\n\nspiriva is great!
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You should just have regular echo cardiograms to monitor the health of your heart.  Some people with a bicuspid aortic valve get narrowing.  The narrowing will cause shortness of breath or chest pain with activity.  If you don't have that problem than there are no limitations and sex is just fine.  Have fun!
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