High Blood Pressure

High Blood Pressure

High Blood Pressure articles

What Should Your Blood Pressure Be?

Your blood pressure can be an important indicator of your health. Having high blood pressure can damage your organs and blood vessels and may lead

What Causes Low Blood Pressure?

What is Hypotension? Our blood pressure naturally fluctuates throughout the day. Low blood pressure is usually temporary and easily reversible. When our blood pressure remains

Symptoms of Hypertension

What is hypertension? Our blood pressure is measured and expressed in millimetres of mercury (mmHg), systolic pressure above diastolic pressure. Systolic pressure is the pressure

Alternatives to Amlodipine for high blood pressure

Alternatives to Amlodipine for high blood pressure

Amlodipine (Norvasc) is prescribed to treat high blood pressure. It does this by opening up the blood vessels to improve your blood flow. However, it can also come with some unpleasant side effects which we discuss here

Amlodipine side effects

Amlodipine side effects

Amlodipine is commercially available as Norvasc, and belongs to a group of drugs that treat hypertension by blocking calcium channels.

Can Amlodipine cause weight gain?

Can Amlodipine cause weight gain?

Whilst it’s highly effective, Amlodipine also has many side effects, including weight gain in some cases. We discuss the likelihood here.