Hypertension: A Silent Killer

Hypertension is a diseased that effect the American people on an everyday bases. Either by knowing someone who has the disease or having it yourself. It is considered a silent killer. Statistic say that 70 million people in the United States have hypertension and only about 52% of them have it under control (High blood pressure, 2015). Hypertension is a disease where the patient has high blood pressure on an everyday basis. There are five levels of blood pressure readings. Systolic blood pressure is a reading of how forceful the heart is pumping. A systolic pressure of under 120 or is considered normal. A systolic pressure of 120-140 is considered prehypertension. The last three are actually considered hypertension by most medical professionals. 140-160 is stage one hypertension (Lindh, 2014). 160 or higher is stage two and the last is 180 and higher is hypertension crisis (Lindh, 2014). Where the patient can …show more content…
Primary hypertension is the form that most of the American people that have hypertension have. There is no cure only pressure management. It’s considered a silent killer because of this form of hypertension. There are no symptoms. One only finds out they have this due to routine physicals. Secondary hypertension is occurring in the body because of an underling issue. For instance pregnancy, obesity or renal disease (Lindh, 2014). Once the issue is fixed the hypertension will go away. The next two are relatively the same benign is a slow progression to a bad pressure continuously. The other is a fast progression to a bad pressure continuously this one is called malignant. Even though it’s called malignant hypertension the patient still has high blood pressure and not a form of cancer (Lindh, 2014). The last form is not as severe as the other forms this is a form of hypertension when the get there blood pressure taken by a doctor. This form goes away once the doctor goes away. It’s known as white coat