| Apparently there is an alarming trend in the | | | | Blood Pressure that the threshold for High |
| rate of High Blood Pressure or Hypertension | | | | Blood Pressure i.e. the level at which it was |
| depending on how you want to view it. After a | | | | deemed safe to have Blood Pressure, has now |
| decline over the past three decades, | | | | been lowered so that we now have a condition |
| apparently it is on the increase. | | | | known as "Pre High Blood Pressure". The goal |
| | | | is to try and catch those whose Blood |
| In the United States of America they reckon | | | | Pressure levels were once deemed to be at the |
| that there are a staggering 50 million plus | | | | high end of being normal and stop them from |
| people over the age of six who are sufferers | | | | becoming sufferers of High Blood Pressure. |
| of High Blood Pressure. | | | | |
| | | | The other part of this treatment is to make |
| High Blood Pressure is an insidious disease. | | | | sure that changes in lifestyle are effected |
| The reason for this is that it actually has | | | | as early as possible so as to have as much |
| very little in the way of outward symptoms or | | | | effect as possible. |
| warning signs. A shocking fact is that 30 | | | | |
| percent of the people who sufferer from it | | | | The danger point starts with much lower |
| don't actually realise that they suffer from | | | | levels of Blood Pressure than was once |
| it. | | | | believed. Using a base point now of 115/75 mm |
| | | | Hg, it is now believed that with a 20 point |
| If left untreated, over the years, High Blood | | | | increase of the upper figure ( the systolic |
| Pressure quietly goes about its business and | | | | pressure) or an increase of around 10 points |
| damages virtually every organ in the body and | | | | in the lower level (the diastolic pressure) |
| actually places you in more overall danger | | | | your risk of dying from a Stroke or Heart |
| than virtually any other condition around. | | | | Attack Doubles. |
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| High Blood Pressure is the most important | | | | If you know what to look for High Blood |
| factor behind Stroke, the third most deadly | | | | Pressure can be detected and measured very |
| illness in the Western World. Heart Disease, | | | | easily. Sometimes all it takes to lower the |
| another one of the complications due to High | | | | Blood Pressure levels are lifestyle changes |
| Blood Pressures is the largest killer, | | | | whilst in certain other cases, Medication is |
| claiming over 500,000 deaths each year in the | | | | required. |
| United States alone. | | | | |
| | | | Nowadays, with the information at our |
| If left untreated, High Blood Pressure can | | | | disposal, there is certainly no reason why |
| shorten your life by up to 20 years earning | | | | High Blood Pressure should be the Death |
| it the rather dubious name, "The Silent | | | | Sentence it once was. |
| Killer". | | | | |
| | | | The bottom line is that we all probably know |
| It is absolutely essential to identify and | | | | someone who either has High Blood Pressure |
| diagnose High Blood Pressure as soon as is | | | | already but we also all know someone who not |
| possible. In fact such is the desire to | | | | only has High Blood Pressure but has yet to |
| ensure that as few people suffer from High | | | | be diagnosed with it. |