Hypertension Quotes:

Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness.

- Hans Selye

topic: Suicide, Stress, Heart, Hypertension, Aimlessness

One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.

- Earl Wilson

topic: Climbing, Blood, Hiking, Hypertension, Blood Pressure

According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.

- Xavier Becerra

topic: Heart, African American, World, Hypertension

We did an episode on Good Times which came out of a newspaper article about the incidence of hypertension in black males being higher than whites, and increasing. So we did a show in which James, the father on Good Times, had hypertension.

- Norman Lear

topic: Father, Black, Males, Incidence, Hypertension

Whether the patient has a cardiac condition, hypertension, autoimmune disease, fibroids, or asthma, he or she must be informed that fasting and natural, plant-based diets are a viable alternative to conventional therapy, and an effective one.

- Joel Fuhrman

topic: Fasting, Alternatives, Disease, Hypertension, Cardiac

We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

- Patrick Soon-Shiong

topic: Cancer, Thinking, Epidemics, Hypertension

Studies indicate that vegetarians often have lower morbidity and mortality rates. . . . Not only is mortality from coronary artery disease lower in vegetarians than in non-vegetarians, but vegetarian diets have also been successful in arresting coronary artery disease. Scientific data suggest positive relationships between a vegetarian diet and reduced risk for obesity, coronary artery disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and some types of cancer.

- John Robbins

source: John Robbins (2010). “The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World”, p.15, Conari Press

topic: Cancer, Successful, Data, Hypertension, Morbidity

Count your blessings for selfish reasons! Psychological studies show that people who are aware of their blessings and feel grateful for them live longer than non-grateful people, have fewer medical problems such as hypertension, earn more and achieve longer marriages.

- Gregg Easterbrook

topic: Gratitude, Selfish, Grateful, Hypertension, Count Your Blessings

No wonder women have achieved a more equal footing with men in areas they never fought for -- ulcers, hypertension, and heart attacks. We're racing around trying to be all things to all people, burdened by a brutal mix of ambition, anxiety, and guilt.

- Kathie Lee Gifford

source: Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!”, Pocket

topic: Heart, Ambition, Men, Hypertension, Ulcers

All I'm trying to do is wipe out heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, and obesity.

- Nathan Pritikin

topic: Heart, Trying, Wipe, Hypertension, Heart Disease