by Eleanor Yap | May 29, 2018 | Health
Find out simple ways to lower your blood pressure and know your numbers well. It’s the silent killer. High blood pressure usually has no warning signs but simple steps can cut your risk of devastating health problems, shared financial services company Manulife...
by Eleanor Yap | Mar 6, 2018 | Health
For most patients with high blood pressure, there are few or no symptoms. High blood pressure officially affects 27.3 percent of Singapore’s population. But in reality, that number is likely to be far greater. How can we go about treating this silent killer? Dr...
by Eleanor Yap | Oct 3, 2016 | Health
The Singapore Heart Foundation’s app reminds, records, tracks and shares blood pressure readings at one’s convenience. The Singapore Heart Foundation (SHF) with the Nanyang Polytechnic’s (NYP) School of IT has developed the BP (blood pressure) Matters app,...
by Eleanor Yap | Oct 31, 2013 | Health
SERI’s first study looking at eye diseases affecting Malays found high prevalence of hypertension and diabetes. BY: Eleanor Yap The Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI) has been analysing the eye diseases affecting the various races in Singapore (they are in the...