HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE, THE SILENT KILLER.

High blood pressure (The Silent Killer)

 

As its name indicates, high blood pressure is known as  SILENT killer precisely, because the vast majority of people who get this disease - do not feel anything, they wrongly think that are healthy, and  unfortunately, they try to act when it is already too late.

In a previous post I talked about the vital signs  - what the normal levels of blood pressure (120/80 - 110/70) are and also when it is on the verge of having blood pressure (130/85). But today I want to address the issue of "high  blood pressure", how it is produced and how we could eventually improve this problem.

What is high blood pressure?

For the blood that expels our heart can circulate through our arteries, veins and capillaries, it needs a force or impulse called pressure. Hence the importance of what I talked previously, about checking your lipids periodically, to keep your blood flow as freely as possible through our circulatory system. When this pressure is too strong, we say that the pressure being exerted by blood on the walls of the arteries is high, and therefore the heart is working too hard to achieve the goal of feeding all our bloodstream. We then, would be talking about a person with HIGH  BLOOD PRESSURE.

It is important that we can pay attention to this chart, so we can detect if our blood pressure is or not out of control, and act in time before it is too late.

If you are in the stage of prehypertension, Heads up!, Act and follow the recommendations I will give down bellow. If you have everything in your house, you have a new car, new clothes, a new phone but you do not have a sphygmomanometer at home, then it is missing all! To control our blood pressure  means to love ourselves.  You can save your life, it is easy to take, and you should only sit down with the hand at the heart level, do not talk, sit down from 5 to 10 minutes before taking it, and start a writing record for your own personal register.

Causes of high blood pressure:

Obesity

Lack of physical activity

Genes

Alcohol and cigarette

High dietary salt intake

Stress

High fat diet

Being Afroamerican are at  higher risk than white population.

High blood pressure affects more men than women.

High blood pressure complications:

Uncontrolled high blood pressure can lead to:

Hardening and thickening of  the arteries.

Enlarged heart caused by overexertion.

kidney damage if these blood vessels are affected

especially eye damage in diabetics.

Heart attack

Stroke and many other serious problems.

Recommendations to reduce high blood pressure.

Reduce levels of salt in your meals.

THROW AWAY YOUR SAL SHAKER and do not use the one at the  restaurant.

Reduce stress by doing relaxing activities such as yoga, listening to music, reading, painting or practicing any other activity that will produce joy and a pleasant state of relaxation.

Try to maintain your ideal weight.

Exercise regularly (30 minutes a day/5 days a week - desirable)

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