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Educate your patient about Hypertension

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 at 7:37 pm  
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Educate your patient about Hypertension 

What is hypertension?                               

Hypertension is also known as high blood pressure occurs when the blood pressing on the inside of the artery (blood vessels) is higher than normal. Untreated hypertension can have serious consequences including a higher risk for heart attack, or strokes, or kidney problems. Compared with people with high blood pressure, people with uncontrolled high blood pressure are….

Three times more likely to develop coronary heart disease. Seven times more likely to have a stroke.

 Because people with hypertension do not feel sick, it is sometimes referred to the (silent killer).

What causes hypertension?

About 90-95 % of the cases oh high blood pressure has no known cause. But we do know that there are some things that increase your chances of developing this disease. These are called risk factors.

Risk factors you can control

Obesity – people with a body mass index of 30 or higher are more likely to develop high blood pressure Eating too much salt Alcohol Lack of exercise Stress

 Risk factors you can not control

Race-African Americans develop high blood pressure more often than Caucasian. Age –The older you get, the greater your chance of developing high blood pressure. Heredity –A tendency to have high blood pressure runs in families.

 High blood pressure usually has no symptoms. That is why it is called the 'silent killer'

 Measuring blood pressure:

There are two numbers referred to when measuring a person’s blood pressure, the systolic or top number measures the pressure in your arteries when your heart beats. The “Diastolic” or bottom number measures he pressure while your heart rests between rests. In a blood pressure of 120/80 mmHg (millimeter of mercury), the 120 is the systolic and the 80 is the diastolic.

Normal blood pressure is below 120/80 mm Hg. Blood pressure of 120-139/80-89 is considered “prehypertension”. If you are an adult and your blood pressure is 140/90 mm Hg or higher, you have high blood pressure. If you have diabetes or kidney disease, your doctor will want your blood pressure to be lower than 130/80 mm Hg .If your blood pressure goes above this threshold and stay there, you have high blood pressure.

What can be done to treat hypertension? 

Hypertension is treated with lifestyle changes first, then with medication if that is not enough. Lifestyle changes to help lower your blood pressure include,

Weight reduction: Many people with high blood pressure are also overweight. Often when people lose weight, their blood pressure drops automatically. By losing weight you will help your blood pressure and help yourself stay healthy in other ways, too. Sometimes eating less sodium can help lower blood pressure. If this might help you, your doctor will recommend a low-salt diet. This means you will have to avoid salty foods and Cut down on how much salt you use in cooking and at the table. Decrease your caffeine intake Physical activity: Should be part of your daily program. A minimum of 30 minutes is of physical activity on most days of the week is recommended. Learning to control your stress through counseling Quit smoking

What about drug treatment?

There are many types of medication that are used to teat hypertension, there are referred to as ‘antihypertensive ‘. Most of these medications are just taken once a day and have few side effects.

If you need to take medication for hypertension, you will need to take them for the rest of your life; also many people will need more than one of these medications to get their own goal blood pressure.

Many types of these medications are available for controlling blood pressure. Some get rid of excess fluid and salt. Others open up narrowed blood vessels. Still others prevent blood vessels from constricting and narrowing.

Here are some drugs to treat high blood pressure.

Diuretics Angiotensin –Converting Enzyme (ACE) Inhibitors Angiotensin-2 Receptor Antagonist Beta Blockers Calcium Channel Blocker Alpha blockers

 

For more information please ask your doctor

 

Pushpa, MSN


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Don’t Ignore Symptoms Of Hypertension

Saturday, May 1st, 2010 at 11:39 am  
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The hypertension symptoms are probably one of the most discussed medical issue because clear reasons of hypertension is yet to be ascertained by medical scientists. The disease is often termed as silent killer as you carry hypertension for years without knowing that you are afflicted with it. Before you would diagnose yourself with it, it would have done enough damage to your body.

These facts suggest that it is difficult to trace hypertension as there is no clear symptom to depict mild hypertension. If you are suffering from persistent high blood pressure of less severity you are likely to remain ignorant of it till your blood pressure level rises very high.

I must relate a startling yet thought provoking fact of our country. Around fifty five million Americans are said to be suffering from hypertension and out of which fifteen millions are not aware of their high level of blood pressure.

Although there exists no clear symptom of hypertension, doctors have been found diagnosing the problem with certain general symptoms such as severe and consistent ache in the back of head. There are certain other complications also, prevalence of which indicates probable high blood pressure. For example, people identified with high cholesterol could be tested for hypertension as it happens to be almost certain that they are afflicted with high BP too. Similarly Type 2 diabetics are very much prone to it.

Some times bleeding from your nose could be due to surge in blood pressure. So you must not take nose bleeding casually. Dizziness could also be taken as a symptom of high blood pressure. In fact it indicates hypertension of very higher level.

You may also identify high blood pressure with blurred vision. It is another probable symptom of high BP. Breathing abnormality, fatigue and perspiring abnormally could be symptoms associated with hypertension.

You must check against hypertension if you are vomiting out frequently. Some times even nausea happens to be an outcome of high level of blood pressure.

But all these symptoms are based on probability. You may or may not get identified with hypertension if you are showing these symptoms as these general symptoms could exist due to other complications too.

However there are certain risk factors that strongly advocate possibility of the complication. For example, obese folks are destined to develop hypertension. Similarly, people living under constant stress are very much susceptible to it.

To sum up, I suggest all of you to be extra careful to combat this silent killer. I also suggest you to constantly keep track of your BP with the help of blood pressure measurement tools.

The author writes about a number of different topics. For more information on blood pressure visit http://www.blood-pressure-updates.com/bp/ and also visit the article page: http://www.blood-pressure-updates.com/bp/blogs/blood-pressure-and-your-health.htm


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What are the symptoms of high blood pressure? I’m 16 weeks pregnant and been having really bad headaches..?

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 at 4:41 pm  
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for the past week i been having these bad headaches that come and go and usually when they start pounding my head is when i go up the stairs and I'm out of breath.. is this all normal during pregnancy or should i be concern about all this?
BTW the headaches are every day.. on and off...  and by going up the stairs mean going up 30 stairs minimum.

Natural Cures for High Blood Pressure

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 at 10:55 am  
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Find out what hypertension is, the causes of blood pressure and what to do to lower it naturally from Dr. Joseph Mercola.

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