The Okinawan eating habits are certainly worth a mention as well. Their regular diet is not based on red meat, but largely on rice, fish and vegetables. One of their popular dishes, Mimiga, is made from pig ears â low in fat and high in calcium.
Hydralazine, sold under the brand name Apresoline among others, is a medication used to treat high blood pressure and heart failure. This includes high blood pressure in pregnancy and very high blood pressure resulting in symptoms.
also interferes with the mobilisation of calcium in the vascular smooth muscle. Its use in associated with a baro-reËex mediated sympathetic increase in heart rate and an increase in renin production and Ëuid retention; all of these eËects counteract the antihypertensive eËect of hydralazine.