High Blood Preasure Cause Of Heart Attack – Study

in this times, when virtually
every aspect of the human system is craving for succour in the faces of the economy-challenging situation, it has become imperative that the knowledge of the workings of the human blood pressure be on the fingertips of all and sundry particularly because, as the economy bites, the clock rather than ticks back  wards or stops, ticks forward and life is needed to meet with it.
Unfortunately, a lot of people within the average and low class which form a major part of the entire population see little or no reason for it because, to them, it only triggers the flare of high blood pressure, therefore, prefer to be ignorant of it.
The Tide’s Health Desk has discovered, however, that this knowledge is needful because in the hospitals today, the primary cause of the conditions of most patients was the high blood pressure which was not detected early enough.
In a research, the Natural Remedies Encyclopedia, sixth Edition, reveals that an undetected and uncontrolled high blood pressure, the root cause of hypertension can lead to heart attacks, heart failure, strokes and venal (kidney) failure.
It stated that most individuals with hypertension do not have symtoms indicating they have the problem, adding that it is a blood pressure check that release the difficulty and its extent with early recognition and management being   essential in preventing permanent damage, especially to the brain, eye, heart or kidney.
Speaking to The Tide at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH), Monday, a consultant Cardiologist, Dr Iwari. O. Sampson noted that there is indirect correlation between an increase in blood pressure and the rate at which arteriosderosis and atheracclerosis develop.
Sampson explained that the blood pressure, the amount of pressure exerted by the blood on vessel walls, reaches its highest values in the left ventricle during systolic and successively lowers in the left arteries, capillaries and Leins stating that the systolic arterial blood pressure normally rises during activity or excitement and then falls at sleep.
Explaining further, he said “ a blood pressure reading involves the obtaining of two numbers.
The first is the systolic (the systolic arterial blood pressure) and is always the higher number. This is the pressure existing in the large arteries at the height of the pulse wave. It is also called the systolic intra-arterial pressure and it is the highest point caused by the contraction of the heart (generally 120 to 145 mm (millimitres of mercury).”
“The second is the diastolic, which reveals the lowest point that the arterial pressure drops between beats (60 to 90 mm average in adults). Normal blood pressure will be something like this: It should show a high systolic pressure of about 145mm, with less for women. Normal diastolic pressure would be 60mm to 90mm. At the age of 20, normal diastolic would be 120mm, with 1/2mm for each year after that age, this would give 135mm as normal systolic pressure for a man of about 50. With exceptions keyed to age differences in general, the following conditions are considered abnormal: a systolic pressure persistently above 150 and a diastolic pressure persistently above 100.”

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