How Can We Define High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)?
One of the problems with high blood pressure nowadays is that it is so common and talked about so frequently that many people do not treat it with the respect which it deserves. The fact is high blood pressure, or hypertension, is a killer and should be treated as such.
Many doctors and scientists have spent a great deal of money and time trying to describe exactly what the true definition of high blood pressure is.
There have been a large number of human population studies performed on this topic that have given the doctors and researchers a wide range of blood pressure values. The results however are frequently skewed and differ from one country to the next and even from one district to the next within a particular country. Accordingly, it has been agreed that the true definition of hypertension can only be found through constant observation and experiment.
Normal blood pressure is recognized in a similar way to normal body weight in the sense that the defining level is that which is associated with the greatest projected life expectancy. This is the pressure at which the heart together with other important elements of the body such as the circulatory system are able to continue under optimum conditions without the risk of heart disease and associated disorders.
There are some other factors which have to be taken into account when defining hypertension and some of these need to be excluded. For instance, If a healthy person becomes their systolic (or pumping) blood pressure can be expected to rise by perhaps as much as fifty percent as their blood flow increases in response to extreme emotional excitement or any form of energetic activity. However it will not remain high for very long and once the level of excitement has gone down your blood pressure also returns to its normal level.
As well as a systolic pressure you also have a diastolic (resting) pressure which is the more important of the two and is a very good guide in determining whether a high reading is a false positive. Diastolic pressure is important because it reflects the state of a person’s arteries and if you have a high reading it might show that your arteries are restricted and not permitting a free flow of blood as they should be.
It is very important to understand that hypertension is not a disease in itself but is a key criterion by which doctors can predict other conditions.
Finally, it is also necessary to understand that hypertension cannot be cured as such but it can be very well controlled with the right treatment.
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