High blood pressure can cause a number of truly serious, life-altering problems if not controlled. This is why there is so much emphasis on regular checkups and making the changes needed to keep hypertension in check.
Without treatment, hypertension does damage to the lining of artery walls, making them thick and stiff (called arteriosclerosis or "hardening of the arteries"). Once the walls are damaged, cholesterol has an easier time attaching; the walls narrow and more pressure is needed to push the blood through.
Making the heart work harder than it has to isn't't wise either. High blood pressure increases the risk of a heart attack by as much as five times, depending on the severity of the reading.
It also substantially increases your risk for stroke by about ten times, depending on the height of your pressure.
Hypertension is also seen as a precursor to congestive heart failure at least 75% of the time.
Beyond what uncontrolled high blood pressure will do in damage or disease to the heart, it can also cause:
Organs like the kidneys and eyes to deteriorate
Silent blockages in the brain that can lead to stroke
Increased risk of Metabolic syndrome
Reduced short term memory or mental abilities, dementia over time
A loss of bone mineral density
Controlling your high blood pressure is the best way to protect yourself, and your family, from the potential consequences of this life-threatening condition.
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Hypertension, When to Treat?
The 18 year Framingham Blood Pressure study found increased risk of heart disease and death in people with increased blood pressure 140 to 160, and even more risk above 160.
If you examine the original data from the Framingham study, you will find computer smoothing of the data as published in the medical journals. This gives a smooth gradual line of increasing mortality as blood pressure goes up between 140 and 160. This is called the Linear Model. However, if you examine the raw data, as S. Port did as published in Lancet 1/15/2000, you will find a non-linear threshold of increased risk above 160 systolic, and no increased mortality below 160.
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