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High Blood Pressure Treatment

Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is dangerous because it can lead to strokes, heart attacks, heart failure, or kidney disease. The goal of hypertension treatment is to lower high blood pressure and protect important organs, like the brain, heart, and kidneys from damage. Treatment for hypertension has been associated with reductions in stroke (reduced an average of 35%-40%), heart attack (20%-25%), and heart failure (more than 50%), according to research.

Bringing treatment and other help to depressed, middle-aged and older African Americans in their homes was modestly effective in a new study.

After four months of weekly one-hour sessions with a trained social worker, participants scored lower on a scale measuring symptoms of depression, compared to those who didn't get the home visits.

More than 180,000 deaths worldwide in 2010 were linked to a high intake of sugar-laden drinks, a new study estimates, including 25,000 deaths in the United States.

Most deaths occurred in middle- to low-income countries, the Harvard researchers noted.

The findings are surprising because "we often think of this as a problem only in high-income countries, like the U.S.," said lead researcher Gitanjali Singh, a research fellow at Harvard School of Public Health, in Boston.

A tattoo is a form of body modification, made by inserting indelible ink into the dermis layer of the skin to change the pigment.

Usage of the terms "skin art", "tattoo art", "pieces", and "work" is gaining greater support with mainstream art galleries holding exhibitions of both conventional and custom tattoo designs.

The American Academy of Dermatology distinguishes five types of tattoos:

1. traumatic tattoos, also called "natural tattoos", that result from injuries, especially asphalt from road injuries or pencil lead
2. amateur tattoos
3. professional tattoos, both via traditional methods and modern tattoo machines
4. cosmetic tattoos, also known as "permanent makeup"
5. medical tattoos.

You may not consider yourself a globetrotter, but the one thing that may be keeping you from claiming that sobriquet is that you haven’t found the right places of interest to you. Well, here’s a little help to get your Fall travel season going:

Add an umbrella policy to your auto coverage for extra liability.

Every year in the United States some 15 million civil lawsuits are filed for everything from minor fender benders to crashes that result in death or medical bills exceeding $1 million. In 55 percent of these cases, the defendants lose and must pay damages.

Would you be covered if you were found liable for an expensive crash?