Blood pressure affects the function of the kidneys, arteries, and the entire body. If not regulated on time, it causes great damage to the arteries, and the other body organs, leading to heart attack, kidney failure, heart failure, and numerous other health problems.
This explains why most doctors decide to treat hypertension with an aggressive approach, in order to bring down high blood pressure.
For this article, the purpose is to show you how to control high blood pressure, since the methods vary in the fifth and the eighth decade of life. Generally, health providers tend to chart blood pressure changes, and start following their results since they’re 20.
Getting an exact picture of the patient’s blood pressure and charting what happens over time is what healthcare providers will want to do. It all starts at age of 20. The AHA (American Heart Association ) reveals young people to screen their blood pressure at their regular healthcare visit. This happens once in every 2 years and applies to those whose blood pressure is lower than 120/80 mm Hg.
Yet, blood pressure rises with heart beats and falls down between the beats. It is also affected by stress, sleep, posture, and physical activity. Yet, despite all these changes, the blood pressure should be lower than 120/80 mm Hg (which is less than 120 systolic and less than 80 diastolic).
Sadly, 1 in 3 American adults suffers from high blood pressure. In this case, doctors read the blood pressure over time, or may advise a monitoring at home, before they diagnose high blood pressure.
You should take in mind that a single peak, a single high reading does not necessarily mean that you are dealing with high blood pressure.
But when it comes, that your readings maintains values of 140/90 mm Hg or above (systolic 140 or above OR diastolic 90 or above) over time, your doctor will recommend you to begin with a treatment program. Almost in every case these programs include lifestyle changes, diets and usually prescription drugs for individuals with that kind of problem-with readings of 140/90 or higher.
To ensure you have correct results, if the systolic values stands at 180 mm Hg or higher, and the diastolic value is 110 mm Hg or higher when monitoring, you need to repeat the procedure after a couple of minutes.
If subsequent results are the same, you’re advised to seek medical help.
Keep in mind than even if your blood pressure is normal, take some new lifestyle changes to protect your health and to improve your heart health. This will absolutely help you improve your overall health.
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