A Background to High Blood Pressure
The recent decline in the levels of High Blood Pressure being reported has been reversed, apparently. Having been in decline over the past thirty years or so, the levels of High Blood Pressure are increasing.
The USA has reported that there are twenty percent plus of the entire population over the age of 6 who have some degree of High Blood Pressure. High Blood Pressure is an insidious disease. The reason for this is that it actually has very little in the way of outward symptoms or warning signs.
If you were to do an analysis of those suffering from High Blood Pressure then you would find that 30 percent of those suffering from it are completely unaware of the fact. It is a frightening fact that if High Blood Pressure is ignored and left untreated and thus goes about its business without treatment then it will cause almost irreparable damage to the bodies internal organs.
Hypertension is the single most important contributor to the incidence of stroke, one of the biggest killer diseases known to Man. Hypertension is also the single most cause of Heart Disease in the USA alone and contributes to over 500,000 death a year alone. Hypertension can decrease your potential lifespan by up to 20 years if left untreated, hence the rather sinister nickname “The Silent Killer”.
An immediate (or as soon as is possible) positive diagnosis of Hypertension is essential if it exists. Understandably, latterly with more knowledge about the effects of High Blood Pressure the desire to catch it at its earliest manifestation is such that their now exists a new condition known as “Pre High Blood Pressure”.
The goal is to try and catch those whose Blood Pressure levels were once deemed to be at the high end of being normal and stop them from becoming sufferers of High Blood Pressure. The other part of this treatment is to make sure that changes in lifestyle are effected as early as possible so as to have as much effect as possible.
Using a base point now of 115/75 mm Hg, it is now believed that with a 20 point increase of the upper figure ( the systolic pressure) or an increase of around 10 points in the lower level (the diastolic pressure) your risk of dying from a Stroke or Heart Attack Doubles. Though the outward signs of Hypertension are not exactly obvious, if you know what to look for they can be spotted quite easily. Sometimes to treat High Blood Pressure, all that has to be done is effect certain fairly basic lifestyle changes whilst in other cases this has to be supported by additional medication.
With Hypertension nowadays, and with the information that we now have at our disposal there is no reason that it should be the serious medical condition that it once was. At the end of the day we all probably know someone with Hypertension but that we also in all probabilities know someone who has yet to realise that they suffer from Hypertension.
Further resources worth checking
The USA has reported that there are twenty percent plus of the entire population over the age of 6 who have some degree of High Blood Pressure. High Blood Pressure is an insidious disease. The reason for this is that it actually has very little in the way of outward symptoms or warning signs.
If you were to do an analysis of those suffering from High Blood Pressure then you would find that 30 percent of those suffering from it are completely unaware of the fact. It is a frightening fact that if High Blood Pressure is ignored and left untreated and thus goes about its business without treatment then it will cause almost irreparable damage to the bodies internal organs.
Hypertension is the single most important contributor to the incidence of stroke, one of the biggest killer diseases known to Man. Hypertension is also the single most cause of Heart Disease in the USA alone and contributes to over 500,000 death a year alone. Hypertension can decrease your potential lifespan by up to 20 years if left untreated, hence the rather sinister nickname “The Silent Killer”.
An immediate (or as soon as is possible) positive diagnosis of Hypertension is essential if it exists. Understandably, latterly with more knowledge about the effects of High Blood Pressure the desire to catch it at its earliest manifestation is such that their now exists a new condition known as “Pre High Blood Pressure”.
The goal is to try and catch those whose Blood Pressure levels were once deemed to be at the high end of being normal and stop them from becoming sufferers of High Blood Pressure. The other part of this treatment is to make sure that changes in lifestyle are effected as early as possible so as to have as much effect as possible.
Using a base point now of 115/75 mm Hg, it is now believed that with a 20 point increase of the upper figure ( the systolic pressure) or an increase of around 10 points in the lower level (the diastolic pressure) your risk of dying from a Stroke or Heart Attack Doubles. Though the outward signs of Hypertension are not exactly obvious, if you know what to look for they can be spotted quite easily. Sometimes to treat High Blood Pressure, all that has to be done is effect certain fairly basic lifestyle changes whilst in other cases this has to be supported by additional medication.
With Hypertension nowadays, and with the information that we now have at our disposal there is no reason that it should be the serious medical condition that it once was. At the end of the day we all probably know someone with Hypertension but that we also in all probabilities know someone who has yet to realise that they suffer from Hypertension.
Further resources worth checking
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