| The Phrase High Blood Pressure conjures
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| | (millimetres of mercury). This reading is
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| up a variety of things to all people.In
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| | referred to as "120 over 80." If the
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| medical terms, hypertension refers to
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| | blood pressure readings were greater than
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| high blood pressure, regardless of the
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| | a systolic pressure of 140 mm Hg and a
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| cause. Because of the silent and
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| | diastolic pressure off greater than 90 mm
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| insidious way it works in the background
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| | Hg than to suffer was deemed to be
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| i.e. no symptoms it is referred to as the
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| | suffering from high blood pressure.
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| Silent Killer. If left uncontrolled or
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| | However, the higher the blood pressure,
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| untreated then High Blood Pressure can
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| | the greater the risks-even within the
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| cause a variety of illnesses all of which
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| | normal blood pressure range-so these
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| could kill if left to their own devices.
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| | limits are somewhat arbitrary.The limits
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| It has been estimated that in the USA
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| | were established because people with
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| there are potentially 50 million
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| | blood pressure above these levels are at
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| sufferers of Hypertension / High Blood
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| | increasing risk of complications. In most
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| Pressure. It would appear in certain
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| | people with high blood pressure, both
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| cases but there are greater percentage of
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| | systolic and diastolic pressures are
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| sufferers of high blood pressure amongst
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| | high. The one major exception to this
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| the black community as opposed to those
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| | widely accepted approach towards blood
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| in the white or Hispanic community in the
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| | pressure is when it is arising through
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| USA. For blacks it would also appear the
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| | increased age whereby it is not uncommon
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| adverse consequences of high blood
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| | to see a raised systolic pressure
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| pressure were worse. There is no doubt
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| | alongside a normal diastolic figure. The
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| about that at high blood pressure does
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| | term for this condition is "isolated
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| increase as we age with the figure is
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| | systolic hypertension". At the upper end
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| called 75% of women and 66% of men over
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| | of the spectrum where the blood pressure
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| the age of 75 being treated for high
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| | is over 180/110 and remains so with a
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| blood pressure. For those suffering with
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| | lack of associated symptoms then this
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| clinical obesity the incidences of high
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| | condition is deemed to be known as "a
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| blood pressure rise by 200%. In the
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| | hypertensive urgency." There has been an
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| United States, only an estimated two of
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| | additional condition recognized as
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| three people with high blood pressure
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| | malignant hypertension and this occurs
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| have been diagnosed.Of these people,
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| | when blood pressure readings are in
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| about 75% receive drug treatment, and of
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| | excess of 210/120 mm Hg. This has only
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| these, about 45% receive adequate
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| | been found to occur in about one half of
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| treatment. Two terms are used when
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| | one percent of all sufferers. However, it
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| calculating high blood pressure, the
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| | is several times more common among blacks
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| systolic which is the first and greater
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| | than among whites, among men than among
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| of the two figures and refers to the
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| | women, and among people in lower
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| highest pressure of the Arteries. The
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| | socioeconomic groups than among those in
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| diastolic figure is the second figure
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| | higher socioeconomic groups. This type of
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| calculated and represents the pressure in
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| | hypertension is unlike hypertensive
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| the hall product to the process of
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| | urgency in that it produces a variety of
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| contraction again. Blood pressure is
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| | severe symptoms. If untreated, malignant
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| written as systolic pressure/diastolic
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| | hypertension usually leads to death in 3
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| pressure-for example, 120/80 mm Hg
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| | to 6 months.
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