High Blood Pressure - Introduction about High Blood Pressure

Introduction
High Blood Pressure
Causes of High BP
Hazards of High BP
Symptoms & Diagnosis of High BP
Treatment for High BP
Prevention of High BP

High Blood Pressure

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High Blood Pressure

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High Blood Pressure : Introduction

One minute he was walking along, seemingly in the best of health. The very next moment, he was on the ground, clutching his chest and writhing with pain. They did get him to the hospital; but he died on the way. This young businessmen, at the age of 43, was a victim, according to the death certificate, a myocardial infraction : heart attack. But this heart attack was just the end result or the terminal event of a process going on his body for many years, not the real cause.

Some one and a half months back he had a strange and frightful experience in his office. He was seated at his desk when the oppressive squeezing pressure beneath his chest bone came. He tried to stand up but his legs gave way. His secretary, who happened to walk in at that moment, realized the gravity of the situation and got him to a hospital. He was immediately admitted to the intensive cardiac Care unit and was connected to a host of over-whelming instruments.

Some time later, his heart fibrillated, shivered and suddenly stopped beating, rendering him unconscious. He was immediately attended to by alert doctors. Electrodes on his chest shocked the heart back to action. When he regained consciousness, he was in the hospital’s coronary care unit, enmeshed in wires and tubes. For the next week, he was monitored and watched round the clock by specially trained personnel.

He recovered. After several weeks he was out of the hospital. His bill : more than 10,000 rupees. But he is one of the fortunate ones, to be back with his family again. Within a short period, he should be able to resume work. The hospital case –records have noted down the diagnosis of his malady as a ‘heart attack’. But once again, the heart attack was not the prime cause but an end result of something else.

‘I never fall ill, she used to say with pride. Until she sat down to dinner that night, she was hale and hearty. But suddenly, at the table, she became dizzy and confused. Dark clouds loomed large in front of her eyes. The spoon in her hand fell down upon the table. In a few moments, she was fine again, ‘Morn was dozing’ her children said jokingly. But she had not dozed. It was not a momentary sleep. Like thousands of other people, she had experienced a ‘little stroke’. Over the next months, she suffered such other mild strokes, manifested by brief bouts of vertigo and numbness or moments of unconsciousness.

Then she woke up one morning, with one hand numb and awkward. Her tea cup slipped from her hands. Within the next thirty minutes, the right side of the body was paralysed – a big stroke ! She had suffered from cerebral haemorrhage. If she is lucky, she will survive it. If she is very lucky, she may regain a reasonable measure of her former ability to speak, move and live a normal life. This bleeding into the brain was also an end result of a process going on in her body since years. Disasters like heart attack, brain haemorrhage, kidney failure happen every moment, every day. And they strike suddenly. Before such an accident, the affected person had always considered himself to be a living example of health.

We blame the heart attack or the brain haemorrhage for the catastrophe. But the real culprit is another process, a silent disease or a fooler of a disease. This disease works insidiously inside the body, damaging most of the organs and the systems without producing a single symptom. The person, unaware of the process, considers himself at the peak of health. One gloomy day, the process suddenly and almost always unexpectedly surfaces and with a cruel blow, shatters the person’s illusions about his good health.

This process is high blood pressure, a hard but quietly hard pounding of blood. Medically it is termed as hypertension. Hypertension should not be confused with mental tension or nervousness. As per the extensive surveys carried out in a number of countries, almost 30 per cent of the population is trapped in the clutches of high blood pressure; and the incidence is rapidly rising. History has noted that renowned physician Dr. William Harvey, internationally acclaimed scientists Edward Jenner, Richard Bright and Louis Pasteur, great leaders Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin and many other public figures had to leave this world due to high blood pressure. Our beloved leader Jawaharlal Nehru and towering scientist Dr. Vikram Sarabhai, too, were victims of high blood pressure.

However, it should not be inferred that high blood pressure affects only the public figures. In fact, it makes no distinction between a king and a pauper, a public figure and a layman, a male and a female, the young and the aged. It strikes persons from all walks of life. It is precisely for this reason that a clear understanding of the disease should be obtained. Only then can it be prevented or successfully controlled. Fortunately, the present treatment for high blood pressure is quite effective and enables the victim to lead a long and happy life.

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