cardiology

« My reading was 128 over 82, they told me it was normal »: at the cardiology clinic, they explained what those numbers had been doing for years

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« My reading was 128 over 82, they told me it was normal »: at the cardiology clinic, they explained what those numbers ha...

A blood pressure reading of 128/82 has been silently reshaping your arteries for years, yet millions of people don’t realize it’s classified as stage 1 hypertension. The definition of high blood pressure changed dramatically in 2017, and 2025 guidelines push for even earlier intervention. Understanding those two numbers could be the difference between preventing and facing a cardiovascular event.

I put the jaw ache and the exhaustion down to the menopause for six weeks just to keep working: the morning a cardiologist looked at my small arteries, I understood what those weeks had cost me

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I put the jaw ache and the exhaustion down to the menopause for six weeks just to keep working: the morning a cardiologist...

A woman spent six weeks attributing jaw pain and bone-deep exhaustion to menopause, only to discover her small arteries were silently starving for blood. Her story illuminates a dangerous gap: up to 50% of women with angina have no blocked arteries, yet their symptoms are routinely dismissed as hormonal or stress-related.