Hypertension Site

The control and understanding of essential hypertension

Hypertension: a big state with different people. The common definition refers to the high blood pressure without alluding to any cause.

Because of the silent and insidious way that works in background or no symptoms, is designated as the murderer silent. If uncontrolled or untreated hypertension and pressure can cause a variety of diseases that can kill all if left to themselves. United States United only their estimate 50 million suffer from hypertension.

Hypertension is more common among blacks, 32% of black adults compared with 23% of whites and 23% of Mexican Americans. For blacks seems equally negative consequences of high blood pressure have been worse.

Hypertension is more common among older people in about three quarters of the women and almost two thirds of men 75 years or more, compared to only a quarter of people of 20-74 years. For people suffering from obesity clinic hypertension incidence of 200%.

It is a wonder that maybe only two thirds of high potential with hypertension in the United States have been diagnosed.Of these people, approximately 75% receive addiction treatment, and of these, approximately 45% receive adequate treatment.

Hypertension is calculated by recording double digits. The first figure is the highest, reflecting the maximum pressure in the arteries of heart contraction during the process known as systole. Since this seems logical, the second figure refers to significant contraction in the heart known as diastole.

The traditional way of presenting the numbers of blood pressure is measured in millimeters mercury and is described as the systolic pressure (diastolic pressure 120 over 80, etc.) If the voltage of the pressure readings were higher than systolic pressure 140 mm Hg and a diastolic pressure over 90 mm Hg that suffering was regarded as suffering hypertension.

But now it is recognized that these numbers can be arbitrary, as even the smallest increase blood pressure is a test of limits are risk.The because people with a blood pressure Above these levels are at greater risk of complications.

Research has shown that it is not uncommon in both figures raised systolic and diastolic people high blood pressure. The only major exception to this widely accepted approach for blood pressure is when it is driven by the increasing age at it is not uncommon to see an increase in systolic blood pressure to a normal side diastolic number.

This condition is called isolated systolic hypertension. When blood pressure is above 180 / 110 mm Hg and there is a lack of associated symptoms, then the joint state is called hypertensive emergency.

There an additional condition has been recognized as malignant hypertension and this occurs when blood pressure is above 210/120 mm Hg.It occurs in only about 1200 people with high blood pressure.

The same incidence of malignant hypertension is higher in the black community and belonging to socioeconomic groups. Unlike hypertensive emergencies, malignant hypertension can cause a variety of symptoms. If untreated hypertension, malignant usually carries death in 3-6 months.

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