High Blood Pressure and the Risk of Heart Disease

Essentially, blood pressure is the measure of how hard your heart has to work in order to circulate blood through your body. There are two factors that affect blood pressure: the amount of blood being pumped out of the heart and the amount of resistance as the heart works to pump blood into the general circulation. To understand this better consider this: water running through a narrow hose as opposed through a wider hose. What happens here is that it takes less pressure to pump water into a hose with a large diameter than it does to pump water into a hose with a small one

When at rest, the heart beats about sixty to ninety times per minute. And, with each beat blood is pumped into the arteries which are the pipeline that carries blood throughout the body. Arteries have the ability to expand and contract. An increase in the resistance or volume needs a greater effort by the heart to push the blood forward into the arteries. Over time, the heart, because of increased work may become enlarged and less efficient. Moreover, the arteries may also become damaged because of scarring and loss of elasticity.

If one does not get treatment for high blood pressure, there is the probability that heart disease may occur. Or, there is the risk of getting a stroke, congestive heart failure, and possibly kidney disease.

Actually, most people do not understand that there is no one specific normal number to blood pressure, such as the common quoted 120/80. Actually, there is a range of normal blood pressure readings that includes less than 140 for systolic BP (the top number) and less than 90 for diastolic BP ( the bottom number). The systolic reading is the highest pressure in the arteries at the time the heart contracts and pushes blood forward into the arteries. On the other hand, the diastolic reading is the lowest pressure in the arteries, and represents the heart at rest between contractions. During this time the heart fills with blood and prepares for the next contraction

We may have heard that high BP is known as the silent killer. This is so because there are no symptoms of elevated BP. Really, the only way to know if one has high BP is to have it measured. If needed, the treatment of HBP may include, with the advice of one’s doctor, diet changes, starting an exercise program, and prescribed medication.



Source by Ken Kennard



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