OF THE TWO MAIN CATEGORISE OF HYPERTENSION -SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION AND ‘PULMONARY HYPERTENSION – WHICH IS MORE DANGEROUS?

Simply put arterial [systemic hypertension is more silent and is the most dangerous hypertension than pulmonary hypertension these are the reasons pulmonary diseases are prominent complaints , the one who is afflicted with a lung [pulmonary]disease will certainly complain of a form of chest pain a kind of breathlessness, a form of irritating and disturbing cough, previous catarrh etc,many heart problem are silent even until the fatal damage is about to occur unless a competent hand to help in its detection.

And in respect of high blood pressure disorder it is unfortunate that the heart and the lung do work together as one unit,it is therefore sometimes difficult for many people to differentiate between a lung disease and a heart disease, strangely some doctor so called are bamboos.

This is partly because most illness of the heart affect the lung in disastrous way to the extent that even the incompetent doctor may become confused , so when their is, for example an acute adult respiratory distress syndrome [ARDS] occasioned by a a near fatal myocardial infarction [mi or heart attack] whose catalyst is either high blood pressure or an arteriosclerotic plaque of hypercholesterolaemia origin a hasty diagnosis of a lung disease like acute bronchitis or acute bronchial asthma may be entertained by the inexperienced house doctor this is because the symptoms of these disease are basically those of breathlessness and their signs are those of respiratory disease stigmata such as chest crepituus, central cyanosis and tacypnoea.

To the young physician or the inefficient doctor who may find it a big task to differentiate between cardiac asthma and bronchial asthma these are but symptoms and signs of respiratory [lungs]disease but not the illness which has no complaint, must have a way to express itself,heart disease tend to express themselves by simulating lung disease,heart diseases like high blood presure which is very silent until it is about to cause a near fatal disaster has but one way to complain through the lungs!hypertension is always silent until it has caused -it is about to cause heart attack or acute respiratory distress syndrome –otherwise know as cardiac asthma or acute pulmonary oedema.
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On the other hand all lung disease have immediately and easily recognise symptoms and signs, pneumonia, for example disease will always produce some chest pain and cough if it must be called pneumonia, tuberculosis of the lung has its own characteristic ways expressing itself both to the layman and to the physician,emphysema thoracic, pleurisy flail, chest hyothrax, pnenmothrax haemothprax, pneumoconiosis bronchitis, bronchiectasis bronchial asthma, brochial carainnoma and other notable lung disorder have their ways of expressing themselves.
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In every respect therefore the silent symptomless hypertension which is systemic arterial hypertension is the more dangerous disease than the more outspoken lung disease called pulmonary hypertension. Click Here to learn more