Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Hypertension

    A common condition in which the force of blood against the walls of the arteries leads to problems such as heart disease. Your blood pressure depends upon the volume of blood pumped by your heart per minute and the resistance offered by your arteries to the flow of blood, this simply means that, more the blood pumped and narrower the arteries, greater would be your blood pressure.
    You can suffer from hypertension, even without any visible symptoms, and still it is damaging  the blood carrying vessels. It generally develops over years and nearly has an effect on everyone, but luckily it is easily detected and can be managed with a similar ease.
    Most people have no symptoms even with dangerously high readings.Some people do have headaches, nosebleeds and dizziness even though these signs are not specific.
  There are two main causes of hypertension one is Primary hypertension, and the other is the secondary hypertension. For primary there is no identifiable cause and it is attributed to genetic predisposition only. There might be certain other diseases that lead to a secondary hypertension which means hypertension is secondary to another disease, the most common being kidney problems and abuse of drugs like amphetamines. an excessive use of salt may also lead to a raised blood pressure.

  Risk factors such as age, being obese or over weight also play a dominant role in the progression of this disease.
   For the preventive measures, i would just refer to the below shown pictures
    Uncontrolled blood pressure may lead to certain complications, such as heart failure, stokes, metabolic disorders, kidney diseases and it may even cause dementia.
  A normal range of blood pressure should be between 120/80-140/90, and if in any case you have a higher value for more than 3 days consecutively then you should consider consulting your doctor.
 


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