YOU NEED TO WATCH YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE JUST ASK THE WIFE OF A CERTAIN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE

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True or False? An adult who consistently has 140/90 blood pressure does not have high blood pressure

Consistently High Blood Pressure May Result in a Stroke

Understanding blood pressure, what is high blood pressure, how to detect hypertension and how to treat it is crucial. It really is an illustration of the saying the more you know the better. Factors like excess salt in the diet, high stress, overweight may all contribute to elevated blood pressure. Read this.


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".

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