High Blood Pressure, What is It?

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