Hypertension

Hypertension, the correct name for high b lood pressure. Hypertension can lead to serious consequences, and it is therefore important that your BP (B lood pressure) is correctly monitored and treated as necessary. Hypertension is simply put when your arteries are narrowed and the b lood is pushed harder through them. Most patients do not know they have hypertension until they go to their doctor for something else and have their B P read as routine. Normal B P’s are around 120/80, which is ideal. However as you get older this increases and the acceptable norm becomes 160/90 (at around 60 years). In ninety per cent of people the cause for ...

At age 14 I lost my fit, "healthy" 40 year old father to a heart attack. The doctor said that it was quite unexpected and he would have died even if he had been ill in hospital at the time and not at home. Six years later, my paternal grandfather too died from a heart attack. This time it was following fairly major surgery and it turns out that he had been told of the risks and decided not to tell the family so as not to worry us. At that time I was 20 and considered myself healthy too. While I had a desk job in an office, I played competitive tennis and tried to keep fit. It was therefore a shock to be told that I had hypertension when I ...

Having found this category item on dooyoo, I feel compelled to tell my story, in the hope that it might help others. I have been suffering from this condition for about 4 years now, and after attending my doctor on numerous occasions, complaining about : High heart rate ( palpitations) sweats, dizziness, tiredness etc. my doctor regularly took my blood pressure over a period of a few weeks, and eventually diagnosed Hypertension. O.K. I thought, I’ll just get some pills and that will be that. What I didn’t know at that time is that hypertension is a very serious medical condition indeed. The problem here is that ...