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Understand why your doctor prescribed these medications and how they help protect your health.
Understanding Hypertension: Your Guide to Blood Pressure
A comprehensive guide explaining what blood pressure is, why it matters, how to measure it correctly, and what treatment options work best.
Every 20 mmHg increase in systolic BP doubles your risk of heart attack and stroke.
Medications covered
lisinopril, enalapril
losartan, valsartan
amlodipine, nifedipine
HCTZ, chlorthalidone
ACE Inhibitors & ARBs: Understanding Your Heart Medications
A comprehensive guide explaining how medications like lisinopril, losartan, and their relatives protect your heart, blood vessels, and kidneys.
In severe heart failure, ACE inhibitors reduce death by nearly 1 in 3 within the first year.
In This Series
Medications covered
Understanding Statins: Your Guide to Cholesterol Medications
A comprehensive guide explaining how medications like atorvastatin, rosuvastatin, and simvastatin lower cholesterol and protect against heart attacks and strokes.
In people at risk for heart disease, statins reduce heart attacks by about one-third.
Understanding Obesity: Your Guide to Weight Loss Medications
A comprehensive guide to obesity treatment, from lifestyle interventions to breakthrough GLP-1 medications that are changing lives.
In 1960, 13% of Americans were obese. Today, it's over 40%—and we finally have treatments that work.
Medications covered
Wegovy, Ozempic
Mounjaro, Zepbound
Saxenda
All Articles
The Discovery That Changed Heart Medicine
Understand how ACE inhibitors and ARBs work to protect your heart, blood vessels, and kidneys.
When Your Heart Needs Help
How ACE inhibitors and ARBs became the foundation of heart failure treatment and extend life.
Protecting a Wounded Heart
Why starting ACE inhibitors or ARBs after a heart attack can save your life.
Beyond Blood Pressure
How ACE inhibitors protect your blood vessels even without heart failure.
Saving Your Kidneys
How ACE inhibitors and ARBs slow diabetic kidney disease progression.
ACE Inhibitors vs. ARBs
What's the difference and which is right for you? A head-to-head comparison.
What Are Statins and How Do They Work?
Understanding how statins lower cholesterol and protect against heart disease.
The Evidence: Do Statins Actually Prevent Heart Attacks?
Reviewing the landmark clinical trials that proved statins save lives.
Who Should Take Statins? Understanding the Guidelines
Learn about risk assessment and who benefits most from statin therapy.
Statins and Diabetes: Extra Protection When You Need It
Why statins are especially important for people with diabetes.
Side Effects: Separating Myth from Reality
What the science actually says about statin side effects and muscle pain.
Comparing Statins: Which One Is Right for You?
A head-to-head comparison of different statins and their unique properties.
The Silent Threat: Why Blood Pressure Matters
Understanding why high blood pressure is dangerous and how treatment saves lives.
Getting the Right Diagnosis
Why your reading at the doctor's office might not tell the whole story.
Lifestyle Changes That Actually Move the Needle
What the clinical trials say about diet, exercise, and other non-drug approaches to blood pressure control.
Medications: What Works and Why
A plain-language guide to blood pressure drugs and treatment options.
The Epidemic: How Obesity Became a Crisis
Understanding the obesity crisis and why new treatments are changing lives.
Lifestyle Interventions: What Actually Works
Evidence-based approaches to diet, exercise, and behavior change for weight loss.
GLP-1 Medications: How They Work
Understanding the breakthrough medications revolutionizing obesity treatment.
Side Effects and Safety
What to expect and how to manage common side effects.
Who Should Take These Medications?
Understanding eligibility criteria and how to determine if these drugs are right for you.
Comparing Obesity Medications
A side-by-side comparison of different weight loss medications and how they differ.