Tuesday, September 23, 2008

SHOULD THE HYPERTENSIVE BE DELAYED IN A CLINIC BEFORE THEY RECEIVE ADEQUATE SERVICE AND CHECK ON THEIR BLOOD PRESSURE?

Impatience sometimes worsens a high blood pressure.It is impossible to measure correctly an anxious person’s blood pressure. A fifteen to thirty minutes delay is needful for the correct measurement of a person’s blood pressure, that does not mean the hypertensive must be delayed deliberately in the clinic before they are treated.They really need more urgent attention and care than any other client.The good thing is that for a correct blood pressure to be measured a little relaxation is necessary in the hospital area.

IS DELAY OF PATIENT IN A HEALTH CLINIC NORMAL?
No, but a patient must learn to be patient. All hypertensive must learn to be calm. There are many reasons queues occur in hospital.

WHAT DOES ANXIETY DO TO A BLOOD PRESSURE?
Stress, fatigue, tension, sleeplessness and anxiety all increase already high blood pressure, therefore if your blood pressure was 155/105 mmHg before a prolonged argument it may become 185/115 mmHg soon after the disagreement. This is not likely say between 95/55mmHG and 130/80mmHg.

But it is appropriate to assert that anxious people do not do well for long in their anxiety state without developing a disturbing medical condition like high blood pressure. They may also develop smoother anxiety related disorder such as anxiety neurosis bipolar affective disorder, hyperemesis, gravidarum, etc.

SHOULD THE HYPERTENSIVE DANCE?
The hypertensive should have enough of any leisure if it is not strenuous,enjoyable and simple dance is okay,but excessive and prolonged disco modes may be harmful to the moderately hypertensive or the severely hypertensive.

WHAT DOES THE FIGURE OF THE BLOOD PRESSURE READING STAND FOR ?
A blood pressure of120/80mmHg connotes a systolic pressure of 120mmHg and a diastolic pressure of 80mmHG. It is read as one twenty-eighty. Click Here to learn more

WHAT DOES THE WORD SYSTOLIC MEANS?
The systolic pressure is the end pressure within the heart muscle chamber when it contracts to pump out blood around the body therefore during systole,the heart contracts. Click Here to learn more

WHAT DOES DIASTOIC MEANS?
The diastolic pressure is the end pressure with the heart muscle chamber when it relates after a beat of the heart ie. after pumping out a volume of blood , therefore the heart muscle relaxes during diastole.Click Here to learn more

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Monday, September 8, 2008

HOW TO CHECK YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE BY YOUR SELF AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO YOU.

It is important every adult understand the need for an adequate blood pressure monitoring and this is why it is ideal everyone should be versed not only in the knowledge and the interpretation of a blood pressure check but also that it is very necessary all adult are knowledgeable about common medical disturbance that may affect their health.

So you need to buy blood pressure machine,then ask your doctor to teach you its use and the correct interpretation of the result you obtain [a well trained nurse health assistant health worker should be able to put you through also]

The care and the treatment of a high blood pressure patient really follows the age – long adage that "prevention is better than cure" because hypertension is one medical problem of a million that does not only need a thorough surveillance and the understanding of its disastrous consequence,it also needs an ideal care whenever it is detected in any person.
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Hypertension make all its victims to regret they ever lived if it is allowed to do one of its many damaging tricks! because high blood pressure problem are silent and yet high blood pressure is a very deadly medical disorder.
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WHAT IS THE NORMAL BLOOD PRESSURE?
There is no fixed blood pressure. This may sound strange but it is true that which considered normal even by the world health organization [WHO] is still I may be subjected to several variables such as exercise rest age environment and the state of the mind at the time the blood pressure was measured,[for any adult the world health organization recommend a blood pressure of 160/90mmHg or less otherwise the individual is hypertensive ]
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Thursday, August 28, 2008

WHAT ARE THE BASIC ORGAN AND STRUCTURE AT RISK IN HYPERTENSION?

The organ at risk in any hypertensive heart disease condition include the brain, the ageing eye, the heart muscle pump itself, the thoracic aorta, the abdominal aorta, the pregnant womb , the kidney and their individual blood vessel.The aorta is a blood vessel that is anatomically divided into segment and it is considered to be the largest and the thickest blood vessel in the human body.

How are these organs damaged by a high blood pressure condition?

The blood supply to these organs are disrupted over time sometimes suddenly the damage to the organ occurs at their basic subunit level. This may occur in the brain cells [neurons],the heart muscle [myocardium] cells or the functional units, the nephrons of the two kidneys. It may affect the photo plate [retina] of the eye of the ageing adult or the pregnant womb of a susceptible group of women. The sudden or the gradual reduction in blood flow to these tissues and organs can cause a significant damage to the functional capabilities of these organs. The disruptions can also affect their structures in a very unpredictable way.

Whenever key organs like the heart, the kidney, the brain or the pregnant womb are damaged by disease the consequences are numerous and devastating.For example in several hypertension peculiar to some pregnancies – the condition which is called ‘preeclampsia or pregnancy –induced hypertension PIH – there is often a sudden disruption in the blood supply to the growing baby [foetus] and this may cause the demise of the lady and even jeopardize the existence of the pregnant lady . This loss of life through high blood pressure is a subject of concern in obstetics perinatology and in gyneacological practice and it may remain so for sometime to come .

Also coma [deep unconsciousness] resulting from a disruption in the blood flow to the brain caused by an elevated blood pressure problem is a severe blow to the brain.Some call it such fanciful names as cerebrovascular accident,CA (cardiac arrest) or stroke, but the truth is that many have died from this hypertension disaster . The problem is so common that many assume hypertension was born with some fellows in their families , that they must live it and accept it as part of their own fate and that they must die from it ! but no,this should not be.

However if high blood pressure does not succeed in damaging the kidney or in injuring the brain, it may successful put the heart itself out of action through heart attack or through hypertensive heart failure or through some other way.High blood pressure problem can be this devastating and it is almost always so in stroke as well as in heart failure.
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Is the damage to these organs grave or mild?

Hypertension damages important body organs with impunity,the damage done may be reversible such as in preeclampsia,irreversible as it is the case in some stroke paralysis. This reversibility however depends on the degree of damage that has occurred at the time of the detection of hypertension.

For example the deeply unconscious [comatose] hypertensive who has just suffered a stroke has severe type of [brain] damage. He may wake up alive or open his eyes only at the other side of life. Some also suffer from a severe myocardial infarction [heart attack] and develop a sudden [acute] heart failure which means their problem was grave. But some who suffer stroke –paralysis only have weakness of one limb for a couple of days or weeks and they recover fully which means they had a mild variety of the consequence of their blood pressure.

There are people who suffer from repeatitive heart (angina pectoris) because of their elevated blood pressure but before they are down completely they recover after just a few days of bed rest. Theirs also is a mild variety on the whole, it means that the problem of high blood pressure is sometime mild and at other times it is grave.

Summarily then, it can be said that when the target organ is a delicate one like the kidney and hypertension is servere,the damage is often grave because the consequence may be an end stage of kidney failure which usually spells deaths for many.But when the damage is to a resilient organ such as the heart [muscle] itself and the blood pressure is not very high , the affliction is mild if it caused repeated heart pain [angina pectoris and nothing more.
Dr Mercola Bradden is medical practioner and are writer.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

EARLY STAGES OF HYPERTENSION .

Hypertension can be understood if a little about the science of blood pressure measurement is known.Blood pressure is the equivalent power in millimeters of mercury by which the heart pumps blood around the body.The heart itself is the mechanical pump that discharges under pressure it’s blood content at intervals into the luminal arteries arterioles of the body.

The force of it’s muscular contraction depends on the average volume it has to eject and the opposing forces it must overcome to discgarge the appropriate quantity everytime it contracts. The opposing forces are mainly dependent on resistingelastic arterial walls-a direct reflection on healthy or unhealthy blood vessels.Its force of contraction also depends on the state and size of the heart’s distribution network which indirectly means the weight of the individual.
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And thirdly, the heart’s contraction force still depends on the blood-load itself and this means that the more fluid the blood is,the easier for the heart to effectively distribute it,and the thicker the blood,the more likely the heart will have a problem with it’ ability to pump the blood around.

Moreover,the heart must daily overcome many frictional forces engineered by the combined effects of the roughened arterial walls and the literal ‘road blocks’ and ‘check points’ within and around the organs the heart must supply with blood every moment of the day! In the normal person,these obstructions (technically termed ‘impeadance’ or ‘peripheral resistance’),due to the friction and the arterial wall resistance,are almost insignificant in relation to the heart’s normal performances whether in exercise or at rest throughout a lifetime.

But in the hypertensive,the situation is very different:the pressure in each of the four chambers of the heart fluctuates at each stressful effort made by the heart because the load may be too heavy for it(high blood volume from a massive size of the individual) or the resisting arteries may cause too much frictional force due to ageing process or disease states within them.

The simple problem in the hypertensive is that the load the heart carries and the path it must take to deliver it to its usual destination is ‘too hard’ and very uncomfortable for it to achieve without its adding more effort.The heart has to put in more effort for every extra load it must carry so as to achieve the feat each time.The effort is a great task for the heart and this means an increased (high) blood pressure task for the heart.
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Therefore, by definition, ‘arterial hypertension’ (or ‘systemic hypertension’-for so it is called),is the blood pressure that is persistently high and may reach levels that are high enough to damage many body important organs.But blood pressure measurement allows a good gauge of the expectations of both the non-hypertensive and the hypertensive and allows the good physician to explain to the subject all that it entails for the subject to survive.

Dr Mercolla Bradden is a medical practioneer and writes informative articles centered on ‘hypertension’(high blood pressure.)
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