WHAT IS HYPERTENSION
Hypertension, sometimes known as “Silent Killer” is America’s freighting combative illness we struggle to regulate. Due too many health risk factors, many people are sometimes unaware of hypertension until suffering from severe damaging effects.
High blood pressure is a growing problem in today’s life controlling it is the key priority.
According to statistics approximately 50 million lives in the United States are affected by hypertension and approximately 1 billion worldwide. In this paper, it will outline different topics that will help better understand, what hypertension is, Causes and Affects to Hypertension, Medication treatments that help regulate, and Hypertension Programs that are available in helping regulate …show more content…
There are different classifications of hypertension, Primary hypertension which are early signs of detection with Blood pressure systolic reading of 140-159 and diastolic 90-99, Malignant Hypertension occurs in only about 1 percent of the people in the population commonly found in young adults pregnant women’s Malignant hypertension occurs when diastolic rises fast to a reading of 130, Resistant hypertension is rarely found ,happens when physician has prescribed different hypertension medication and blood pressure is still high, essential …show more content…
Early middle age men around the age of 45 are at risk for developing hypertension, commonly women’s are at risk for hypertension development around the age of 65 or older. Other factors of developing hypertension my occur from race, family history, being over weighted or obese, not being physically active, usage of tobacco, the use of salt to much sodium, having too much potassium in the body, too little vitamin D in the body, stress, chronic conditions such as kidney disease, sleep apnea, pregnancy, retention of obsessive water in body diabetes, and also the use of alcohol. Effects that can contribute when not seeking medical attention or failure to properly monitor high blood pressure can result in stroke, or heart attack.
1. Hypertension damages the brain as well in many different ways. Dementia is a brain illness that interferes with memory or understanding may affect the ability to learn, think, remember, the first cause of dementia can begin with narrowing and blockage of arteries that help supply blood to the brain. Also strokes play a big part in dementia development due to interruption of blood flow to the brain caused by high blood
Hypertension, sometimes known as “Silent Killer” is America’s freighting combative illness we struggle to regulate. Due too many health risk factors, many people are sometimes unaware of hypertension until suffering from severe damaging effects.
High blood pressure is a growing problem in today’s life controlling it is the key priority.
According to statistics approximately 50 million lives in the United States are affected by hypertension and approximately 1 billion worldwide. In this paper, it will outline different topics that will help better understand, what hypertension is, Causes and Affects to Hypertension, Medication treatments that help regulate, and Hypertension Programs that are available in helping regulate …show more content…
There are different classifications of hypertension, Primary hypertension which are early signs of detection with Blood pressure systolic reading of 140-159 and diastolic 90-99, Malignant Hypertension occurs in only about 1 percent of the people in the population commonly found in young adults pregnant women’s Malignant hypertension occurs when diastolic rises fast to a reading of 130, Resistant hypertension is rarely found ,happens when physician has prescribed different hypertension medication and blood pressure is still high, essential …show more content…
Early middle age men around the age of 45 are at risk for developing hypertension, commonly women’s are at risk for hypertension development around the age of 65 or older. Other factors of developing hypertension my occur from race, family history, being over weighted or obese, not being physically active, usage of tobacco, the use of salt to much sodium, having too much potassium in the body, too little vitamin D in the body, stress, chronic conditions such as kidney disease, sleep apnea, pregnancy, retention of obsessive water in body diabetes, and also the use of alcohol. Effects that can contribute when not seeking medical attention or failure to properly monitor high blood pressure can result in stroke, or heart attack.
1. Hypertension damages the brain as well in many different ways. Dementia is a brain illness that interferes with memory or understanding may affect the ability to learn, think, remember, the first cause of dementia can begin with narrowing and blockage of arteries that help supply blood to the brain. Also strokes play a big part in dementia development due to interruption of blood flow to the brain caused by high blood