Category: Blood pressure

  • The dangers of food delivery!

    Is it just me, or did Covid make it far too easy to order takeaway? With almost every restaurant available on Deliveroo or Just-Eat, along with those who already have their own fleet of delivery motor scooters, we now see almost every type of food available at our fingertips, breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, groceries, booze.…

  • My broken heart

    I can’t recall now if I mentioned it, but last month, on June 20th, I had to have my beloved white German shepherd Willow put to sleep. She’d had a long battle with cancer which finally got the better of her. The months before were quite stressful as you can imagine, but nothing compared to…

  • Diabetes and hypertension – the double-whammy

    So, now that it looks like I may still have Type 2 Diabetes (T2D), and I definitely have hypertension (aka – high blood pressure), I started looking into the link between these diseases. It’s pretty stark. Hypertension is twice as frequent in patients with diabetes compared with those who do not have diabetes. Moreover, patients…

  • My heart hasn’t been in it – NHS woes

    10 days since my last blog entry – you have to wonder if my heart has been in it. Well – I can honestly say it’s been a rollercoaster 10 days, and as a result – no it hasn’t been. Firstly – I got the results of my “official” blood test results back, or at…