Tips to Help Reduce High Blood Pressure

“Keeping just a few pounds off can significantly affect your risk of getting high blood pressure or diabetes,” says cardiovascular health expert Lawrence Appel at the John Hopkins School of Medicine. Most Americans don’t realize how simple modifications can tack on an extra ten years to their lives. It was previously assumed that if you had heart attacks and congestive heart failure in your family, then you were doomed and if your genetic slate was clean, then you’d be fine.

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Complications of Hypertension (High Blood Pressure) And How to Fix It

High blood pressure (hypertension) is not just a silent killer but a systemic or multi-organ disease that point to underlying imbalance. Hypertension is an low grade inflammatory disease or warning sign that points to disruption of the body’s internal organs. Hypertension increases the risk factor of just about any killer disease in the body. High blood pressure increases the risk of heart attack by three-fold; increases the risk of congestive heart failure by six-fold; aggravates the risk of stroke by seven-fold and doubles the risk of kidney failure.

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Hypertension is Often Called the “Quiet Killer”

For the good reason that it doesn’t always shows signs of the undercover damage it may be doing: Weakening blood vessels walls; aneurysms-abnormal expanding or hazardous ballooning of the artery wall which, when ruptured, can cause strokes, heart attacks or instant death; and congestive heart failure and kidney damage. The national institutes of health define hypertension as a blood pressure greater that 140/90.

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High Blood Pressure and Kidneys – An Overview

High blood pressure is extremely dangerous for the body. It can result in kidney failure, congestive heart failure and stroke.

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