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    High blood pressure and its affects on health
    Date Added: December 04, 2009 02:44:19 AM
    Author: Theodore
    Category: Health: Pharmacy
    Your arteries are pipes that carry blood from your heart to the rest of your body. When your heart beats, it pushes blood through the arteries. In a person who has healthy arteries, the blood is able to stream through the arteries with little resistance. But in people whose arteries have narrowed, the arteries resist the blood streaming through them. The heart has to work a lot harder to get the blood to the organs, and that is when hypertension occurs. High blood pressure places a huge strain on your heart and damages the arteries. This increases your risk for stroke, heart attack, coronary disease and kidney failure. Hypertension is sometimes called the "silent killer", because a lot of people are not even aware they have it. This is because the majority of males and females with hypertension have no symptoms. Blood pressure is made up of 2 measurements. The first figure is known as systolic, and refers to the peak blood pressure when your heart is directing blood into the arteries. The second measurement is called diastolic, which is the pressure when your heart is relaxing between beats. The systolic pressure is measured first, and the diastolic pressure is measured second. In a healthy grownup blood pressure is 120/80 or lower. Hypertension is a reading 140/90 or higher. A few factors raise your risk of high blood pressure. Some you can be in control of, and some you cannot. The factors you cannot be in control of are: • Race. African Americans develop hypertension more often and at an earlier age. Furthermore, hypertension in African Americans tends to be more severe. • Age. Risk of hypertension raises as you grow older. • Family history. If you have got close family members who have hypertension, you are at higher risk. Other factors that place you at risk for high blood pressure include being corpulent, not being active enough, using tobacco products, consumption of too much salt. General practitioners recommend that all grownups aged 18 and older be screened for high blood pressure. If you have hypertension, the following are some tips to help you lower it. - Stop smoking. Nicotine brings on your blood vessels to narrower and your heart to beat quicker, which increases your blood pressure. - Lose extra pounds if you are overweight. - Exercise regularly for 30 minutes 5 or days a week. - Go on a healthy diet that contains lots of fresh fruits and veggies and is low in pure fat. - Limit your sodium and alcohol intake. If lifestyle improvements alone do not reduce your blood pressure, your physician may besides prescribe antihypertensive medications to treat your high blood pressure. The aim is to lower blood pressure to normal levels with medicines that are easy to administer and have fewer adverse side effects.
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