High Blood pressure

Blood pressure is an important part of our bodies workings. If you have high blood pressure then you are at risk form a stroke or heart attack. So we should have our blood pressure checked at least once per year and more often if you know that there is a history in your family of high blood pressure.

The force of our blood against our arteries as it is pumped by the heart is what is known as our blood pressure. The heart will pump blood around our bodies using our arteries as it beats and this is when the pressure is most which is known as systolic pressure and then the heart has a quick rest before its next pump and this is the lower pressure know as the diastolic ppressure.

When you go to the Doctors office and you have your blood pressure checked you get two readings as a result. This is your systolic/diastolic which is systolic over diastolic. For a normal fit and healthy adult this should read around 120/80, that's 120 over 80 and that would be classed as normal blood pressure. Anything over this could be classed as high blood pressure.

So if your blood pressure was 140/90 then your doctor would class that as high blood pressure and would investigate why it could be reading high. So you would be advised to possibly make some changes in your lifestyle to bring your blood pressure down. The Doctor would probably want to see you again for another reading the following week.

If after several visits to the Doctors office you are still getting high BP readings then you are at risk and the Doctor will stress how important it is to change your lifestyle to a healthier one ( if it isn't already ). It is possible to bring your blood pressure down naturally.

Hypertension can be caused by lifestyle things such as being over weight or smoking although there are many more things that can be the reason for high blood pressure. So if you make some kind of changes to your lifestyle then you are capable of bringing down your blood pressure.

The alternative to bringing down high blood pressure naturally by lifestyle changes is medication. Your Doctor may decide that you will have to take drugs to lower your blood pressure to the normal level.There are plenty of different blood pressure medications to choose from.

Bringing your blood pressure down with lifestyle changes will spare you from medication and there possible side effects.

Hypertension the silent killer. If you don't want to be walking around with high blood pressure and therefore at risk, because you may not know you have it as there aren't always symptoms then get your blood pressure checked sooner rather than later.

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