Archive for January, 2009
by I Russell
The bad thing about having high blood pressure is there are really no symptoms that you can pinpoint and say, "This is a symptom of high blood pressure. There is a chance for a person to have high blood pressure. High Blood Pressure some are unaware for a while Blood pressure may be linked to the occasional headache, however, there are also several additional causes that could be held responsible.
Live too long with HBP and your internal organs will be damaged and you may not know, until it's too late to reverse it. For this reason, blood pressure should be checked regularly whether you have high blood pressure or not.
When high blood pressure is not regularly monitored, a person may experience headaches, breathing difficulty, vomiting, and gets easily fatigued.
Many kidney and heart problems have been found to be caused by high blood pressure. These are two vital organs that damage can affect adversely. Your heart can succumb to coronary heart disease. Chronic HBP can cause kidney failure.
Heart failure can occur, meaning your heart size increased or your heart is not able to pump enough blood through your body. Aneurysms, a bulge that forms in the walls of an artery, can form in the bodies main artery, in the brain, or in the legs.
The vessels taking blood to your heart can actually constrict, becoming narrower in diameter. This will not allow the blood to flow through and get to the other organs this can create someone to have heart attacks, strokes, kidney failure, and possible loss of limbs. Kidney failure can be caused by narrowing of the blood vessels. Blindness can be caused, in a worst case scenario, by blood vessels bursting in your eyes.
In some cases, brain swelling can result from high blood pressure, if the case is severe enough. This can result in a number of problems including seizures and coma. The name for this is hypertensive encephalopathy.
The walls of the heart will thicken causing the heart to get larger when the blood pressure goes above 140/90. This is a result of the surplus of work it must do in order to pump blood throughout the rest of your body. Because of this the heart chamber will not get expanded, instead it pumps the heart to work hard. Heart murmurs may be caused by this.
Checking your blood pressure is extremely important it cannot be pointed out enough as stated before there are no symptoms and before you know it major internal organs are messed up in the long term untreated high blood pressure. This is the reason why HBP was given the name the 'silent killer.'High blood pressure.
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by Christian Goodman
Someone asked me recently about depression treatment. He purchased the High Blood Pressure Program and jokingly asked if he could be depressed from it.
Research does reflect a link between the two. Both ideas have been studied; hypertension leading to depression as well as depression leading to high blood pressure.
First, we'll look at depression as the initial problem. Research shows that people who suffer long term depression are two to three times as likely to also develop hypertension.
People who suffer from depression tend to practice poor eating habits and do not necessarily tend to their health properly (including monitoring high blood pressure.)
However, surprisingly, even the people involved in the study who did not engage in poor eating habits, smoking etc. also suffered from high blood pressure.
Therefore, it is thought that hormonal changes due to the long term depression may be a factor in the increased blood pressure.
Medications for depression can also lead to a small but long term increase to blood pressure.
Given these factors, there is a link between depression and high blood pressure.
High Blood Pressure as the primary with depression resulting:
The link here tends to be the result of the high blood pressure medication. Many side effects including depression occur with those medicines.
Here again, we see that in the effort to solve one issue, another is created.
In addition to the medicinal link, a person may also experience anxiety just knowing that they are suffering from a condition such as hypertension.
Stress shows up again and again as at least a contributor if not the cause of many problems. It really is no surprise that hypertension and depression can also result from it.
Some things that still provide relief in lowering blood pressure regardless of the cause:
Avoid drinking. Many people see an increase in blood pressure after just one or two drinks.
Do not smoke. Smoking create many problems including increased blood pressure.
Eat properly. The body requires good nutrition to function well. This can also assist with weight control.
Two other options are my all natural High Blood Pressure Program and Weight Loss Breeze Program. Both have amazing results.
About the Author:
Christian Goodman is a popular health researcher and author of several revolutionary natural health alternatives. One of his breakthroughs is his program for managing high blood pressure. You can learn more about Christian on his Natural Health Alternative Blog.
