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Do you know how is your blood pressure today?
- Shirley Hernandez
- 16 ene 2019
- 2 Min. de lectura
What is blood pressure?
Blood pressure is defined as the strength with the blood is hitting blood vessels during his flow through all cardiovascular system.
The pressure will depend on the blood vessels diameter and other chemical factors, however, the most important cause is associated with high blood pressure family history.
It is considered a normal blood pressure when, at the moment of measuring it, a person has 120/80mmhg, it means that all blood pressure up or under this value should be studied in order to determine causes and starts an early treatment as soon as possible.
What are the high blood pressure effects?
A high blood pressure can affect the whole functioning of the cardiovascular system causing severe damage to the brain, heart, and lungs.
As much as blood pressure gets, the small blood vessels are vulnerable to be broken causing since retinal microhemorrhages to aneurysms strokes, and myocardial infarction.
As much as blood vessels are getting smaller, they are in risk to be broken because they have not the same elasticity and flexibility than the bigger ones, for that reason small changes on blood pressure could affect the cardiovascular system functioning overall.
High blood pressure is considered as one of the most common heart diseases. Many people are not aware of their blood pressure until they take time to measure it when that happens, can see how is it, and can have the opportunity to do something early to improve it, before any cardiovascular damage has been established.
Why should I measure my blood pressure?
The only way that people have to know how is their blood pressure, is measuring it, many times individuals are not aware of their blood pressure until they come to the emergency room with a hypertensive urgency having signs and symptoms of cardiovascular damage.
In the United States, high blood pressure is inside of the first leading death causes, because is considered a heart disease and trigger severe complications as paralysis, disabilities as result of broken blood vessels into the brain or other important organs.
The best weapon that we have against high blood pressure and its complications is the prevention, if you take time to know how is your blood pressure and do effective changes on your lifestyle, receiving timely health assistance, you can delay the disease progress increasing the possibility to have better health at the end.
What can I do if my blood pressure is high?
1. If you have blood pressure above of 120/80mmhgs, it is important that you go an urgent care location to monitoring., some factors are involved in high blood pressure without being a disease established.
2. If you have blurred sight, pain chest, dizziness, you must go to the emergency room as soon as possible.
3. If you have a family history of high blood pressure and have palpitations, severe headache, retinal hemorrhage, or paralysis you have to call 911 or go emergency room immediately.
