High Blood Pressure – The Silent Killer

You wake up in the morning and you have a pain in your right side. It’s pretty acute. You’re not sure but you think it might be your appendix. At the very least, you do feel some pain and suspect that something is wrong. So you go to the doctor to get checked up. With high blood pressure, unfortunately, this is not always the case. A person can be walking around with high blood pressure for years and not know it until one day they have a stroke or heart attack. There are no symptoms, no warnings, nothing, until many times it is too late. That’s why they call high blood pressure the silent killer.

So what exactly is high blood pressure and what causes it?

High blood pressure, basically, is when the force of the blood against your artery walls is just too strong. When this happens, it can damage your arteries, heart and kidneys. The only time you’ll ever feel anything from this is when your blood pressure is dangerously high. By that time, it is usually too late to do anything about it. And if treatment isn’t administered quickly, severe organ damage can occur.

Blood pressure is measured by systolic and diastolic pressures. Systolic pressure is the pressure of blood against the arteries after the heart has finished pumping. This is the top number in the reading. Diastolic pressure is the pressure of blood against the arteries between heart beats, or when the heart is at rest. This is the bottom number reading.

There has been a lot of debate about what “normal” blood pressure should be. Years ago it was believed that 120 over 80 was a “normal” blood pressure reading. Today, from what we have learned, it is better to have a lower bottom number around 70. So a blood pressure reading of 120 over 70 would be considered normal. Any numbers above these are considered high blood pressure or hypertension.

So what do you do if you have high blood pressure, which can be easily diagnosed by going to your doctor? Well, this is actually one area that doctors agree, at least in part, with those who prefer natural methods over drugs. The first thing a doctor will usually recommend is a life style change. There are probably many reasons for your high blood pressure such as smoking, stress and improper diet, specifically eating foods with a lot of sodium.

The problem is, your doctor will only give you some basic guidelines to follow and usually these aren’t enough. Ultimately, they end up putting you on some very dangerous drugs which I urge you to avoid at all costs. The side effects and potential dangers are not pleasant.

There is a better way. High blood pressure can be controlled with natural methods that aren’t harmful to your body. You can get more information at our website which you will find in the author’s bio.

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High Blood Pressure – The Silent Killer

The term ‘blood pressure’ refers to the pressure or force exerted in the blood vessels of the body by the pumping of the heart. This pumping action causes blood to be pushed into the circulatory system of the body. The blood vessels expand or contract and thereby regulate the quantity of blood as well as the resistance to the blood flow. Blood pressure is measured in terms of two values; the first is the systolic pressure or the pressure recorded when the heart beats and the second is diastolic reading taken when the heart relaxes in between beats. The readings are recorded one above the other, with the systolic value over the diastolic and expressed in mm/Hg or millimeters of mercury. The normal blood pressure is less than 120mm/Hg systolic and less than 80mm/Hg diastolic and is expressed as ‘120 over 80’.

High blood pressure occurs when the arteries exert a more than normal resistance to blood flow. Some factors that contribute to high blood pressure are arteriosclerosis or hardening of the arteries, hypertrophy or thickening of the walls of the arteries, as well as excessive contraction of the small arteries or arterioles. Very high blood pressure is also called hypertension. Some other underlying reasons for high blood pressure are kidney malfunction, tumor of the adrenal gland, or a congenital birth defect in the aorta. These conditions are known as secondary hypertension.

While low blood pressure or hypotension is also a deviation from the normal pressure, it is high blood pressure that is considered dangerous. In fact high blood pressure is called the ‘silent killer’ because it causes severe damage to health without exhibiting any obvious symptoms.

The biggest hazard faced by people with high blood pressure is heart disease and heart attack. When the heart has to pump harder in order to push the blood into the arteries and arterioles, immense stress is imposed on the heart. When the heart is forced to work under stress for prolonged periods of time there is a danger of heart enlargement and cardiac arrest. High blood pressure can also adversely impact kidney functioning. When the blood pressure remains continually high, the blood vessels in the kidneys become thicker and narrower, thus decreasing blood supply and impairing kidney function.

It is estimated that about sixty million Americans, including almost fifty percent of Americans over the age of sixty-five, suffer from high blood pressure. Since high blood pressure betrays very few symptoms, almost forty percent of these people are unaware that they have hypertension. As regards the sex ratio of those afflicted, more middle-aged men have high blood pressure as compared to women, however, with advancing age, the number of women suffering from hypertension is significantly higher than that of men. Among ethnic groups, Afro-Americans and Hispanics have a greater likelihood of developing high blood pressure than other people of races. Clinical studies have established that people with lower educational and income levels have a more marked propensity to hypertension than the affluent sections of society. This may be directly linked to the fact that high blood pressure is often synonymous with poor nutrition, excessive fatty diet, lack of exercise and a generally unhealthy lifestyle.

Michael RussellYour Independent guide to Blood Pressure


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