MAYBE 65 MILLION AMERICANS INCLUDING SOME FAMOUS ONES HAVE HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE AND MANY OF THEM DONT EVEN KNOW IT IMPORTANCE OF TREATING HYPERTENSION
YOU NEED TO WATCH YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE JUST ASK THE WIFE OF A CERTAIN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
It is an important lesson about the importance of blood pressure and controlling blood pressure. Most doctors will diagnose a person with high blood pressure on the basis of two or more readings, taken on several occasions. A consistent blood pressure reading of 140/90 mmHg or higher is considered high blood pressure,called in medical terms hypertension and need blood pressure treatment.
Your doctor does not know why you have high blood pressure. Don't look for a new doctor because they don't know why your blood pressure is high either(an exaggeration, sometimes there is an identifiable cause) but in 80 to 90 percent of cases people have what is called essential hypertension.
Just "as with cholesterol levels, the concept of a normal blood pressure has fallen strikingly as doctors learn what it takes to preserve good health.Lacking good treatments for hypertension, no doctor was concerned when, at age 57, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s blood pressure was 170/90. And so the president’s blood pressure rose inexorably over the next six years, and on April 12, 1945, at age 63 and with a pressure of 200/110, he died of a brain hemorrhage caused by severe hypertension".
Cindy McCain looks great now but in 2004, the relatively young McCain had a stroke after she decided she didn't need or want to take her blood pressure medicine."The stroke occurred while she was out to lunch with some friends. "I started talking, and the next thing I knew, what was coming out of my mouth was just gibberish," she recalls. "My first thought was just to get out of there, but I couldn't walk. One of my friends' husbands actually picked me up and carried me to the car, then drove me to the hospital."
"As she headed for the hospital, "I thought, I wish I had one more chance to tell my family I loved them," she said. McCain had high blood pressure—the primary cause for strokes—and she wouldn't take her medicine, thinking that, at 49, she was just too young to need it. "It was a hell of a lesson to learn," she said of the medical scare that put her in intensive care for two weeks. Upon her return home, she decided to move to Coronado, Calif.—alone—and concentrate on getting better, away from the stress of daily life".
In 80 to 90 percent of cases people have what is called essential hypertension. A fancy moniker for "we don't know why". But even though medical science doesn't why most people have high blood pressure doctors can treat high blood pressure successfully. Many people will need blood pressure medication. But an expert panel said lifestyle changes can impact your blood pressure too!
About 65 million Americans are walking around with high blood pressure a.k.a hypertension. And many of them don't even know it! Almost one billion people worldwide have high blood pressure.What is blood pressure anyway? Your body needs oxygen rich blood all the time. Your heart is the master pump that pumps blood. But blood pressure is more complicated than just the heart. The pressure is created by the heart but the arteries and channels that carry the blood also exert a pressure. An analogy is the way fuel flows in a car. In a car the fuel is pumped from the fuel pump. When you put your foot on the accelerator more fuel is pumped to meet demand. When you exercise your heart pumps harder to meet demand. The fuel flows through pipes to the parts of the engine. If the pipes get clogged it is harder for the fuel to be distributed, similarly resistance in the arteries can force the blood pressure up. If there is a leak in the system the pressure can drop. If you lose a lot of blood the pressure drops and you can go into shock.
Even though we don't know why most people have high blood pressure (some people do have identifiable factors like kidney problems) we do know many things that affect the pressure. If you are angry, angry at the traffic,angry at your boss and pretty much just plain always angry there's a good chance it's showing up in your pressure. Adrenalin gets pumped into your system, the nerves are stimulated. The nerves attached to the artery walls can alter the blood pressure. Anger and stress, especially chronic (long term) anger and stress are correlated with high blood pressure and heart problems.
"Although treatment has been prescribed for nearly all people known to have blood pressures consistently above 140/90, now called the high end of normal, up to half of patients still have elevated pressures.Why? Because doctors are not aggressive and creative in treating the problem...Many patients do not follow doctor’s orders and fail to fill prescriptions or neglect to take medicine daily; and because the rising weight of Americans and the passion for high-salt processed and restaurant-prepared foods have raised the once-normal pressures of many people to levels that experts say should be treated".
"While weight loss and improvements in diet and exercise habits can indeed help people lower an elevated pressure, “most people can’t adjust their lifestyles enough to normalize their blood pressure,” Dr. Moser said in an interview. “Most people need help from medication, notably a diuretic in combination with one or two other drugs. The majority of patients don’t get their pressures to normal without such a combination (with blood pressure medication).”
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