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High Blood Pressure can be controlled It is very easy to come out of you Doctors Surgery (or Healthcare Practitioners Surgery) after you have been diagnosed with High Blood Pressure and admit defeat totally. It is the easiest option to take, to just sit back and say to yourself “OK, I’ll have to come to terms with the pills then” but why should you when with a little bit of effort you can control this condition that you have? Heart Attack – we all know the term, but what exactly is a Heart Attack? It has possibly been described as THE disease of the 20th Century and is certainly the one of the Century’s biggest killers but what exactly is Heart Disease and what exactly is a Heart Attack? As they say, what is in a name? Well in this case the most common terminology in use is as follows. Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) is (as the name suggests) the Disease of the Coronary Arteries. Ischaemic Heart Disease or IHD is a narrowing of the blood vessels resulting in Ischaemia, which is a lack of blood supply to the Heart Muscle.