It is very important to take care of your body, but people don’t know or don’t have the motivation to take care of the body. This problem can lead to serious consequences. Not taking care of yourself means that it can affect your health by causing stress, lack of exercise, which increases the chance gaining weight, and causes depression. When you don’t exercise the fat that you have consumed it can lead to having high blood pressure. What is blood pressure? Blood pressure is the pressure of the blood in the circulatory system, often measured for diagnosis since it is closely related to the force and rate of the heartbeat and the diameter and elasticity of the arterial Walls. High blood pressure is a condition in which the force …show more content…
If your blood pressure is high, it is putting extra strain on your arteries and on your heart. This may also cause a heart attack or stroke, which can even be fatal. Although it is unclear what is the direct cause of high blood pressure, but these factors help in its development smoking, being overweight or obese, lack of physical activity too much salt in the diet, too much alcohol consumption (more than one to two drinks per day), stress, older age, genetics family history of high blood pressure, chronic kidney disease, adrenal and thyroid disorders, and sleep apnea One reason why it is important to keep blood pressure in check is that it can damage your arteries, which can lead to serious injuries. The arteries are very important to the body as it’s your main veins and if you have high blood pressure, it can damage them by limiting blood flow since the fat, that you don’t work of or the salt in your diet, enters your bloodstream and weakens the Arteries. This can also lead to life-threatening internal bleeding since blood flowing through the weakened arteries can …show more content…
Without blood pumping throughout the body properly it can increases your risk of heart attack, heart failure and sudden cardiac death. Also your heart can give out when high blood pressure weakens the heart and can make work less efficiently. Adding to what I had just said, high blood pressure can cause damage your brain which can lead to serious injuries. High blood pressure can cause you to have a stroke due to the fact that high blood pressure damages the brain’s blood vessels causing them to burst. One big reason to take care of yourself is because the risk of having the dementia, which is the disease resulting in problems with thinking, speaking, reasoning, memory, vision and movement. One can have dementia by having a stroke, which is caused by blood pressure. Learning the consequences of having high blood pressure, one might be asking on how to prevent the consequences. One is to exercise regularly. Exercising helps you lose the fat which helps prevents the risk of blood pressure. Another is to eat food that is low on salt and high in Potassium. Salt is a factor that helps the development of high blood pressure, so lowing diets
For example: if hypertension goes untreated then it could potentially lead to stroke, heart attacks, and untimely death. Early detection and improve patient outcomes by educating the patient on lifestyles changes and effective drug treatment. It is important for the patient to alter their eating habits, as well as their sedentary lifestyles and monitor their blood pressure levels. Feasible and affordable screening approved by the patient is also important: for example, electronic monitoring can make it easier for the patient to obtain their levels without causing harm and cost effective. (page 125)
Hyperlipidemia or increased cholesterol builds up causing narrowing in the arteries, which reduces oxygen rich blood flow to the heart and tissues, also increasing the risk for myocardial infarction. Obesity increases the risk of developing diabetes, high blood pressure, and hyperlipidemia, increasing the risk of atherosclerosis, and therefore increasing
There are many consequences to having an unhealthy diet such as diabetes type two, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and obesity. More severe conditions includes heart attacks, heart diseases. If
Reduce salt intake. Too much salt impacts the ability of your kidneys to remove water from the bloodstream. The result of this is higher blood pressure because of the extra fluid. Stop using table salt and reduce the amount of salt you use when cooking.
...story of high blood pressures, it would be better to have it checked more than that. High blood pressure can result from having too much salt on one’s diet. It is important to decrease or stop using salt on foods, and eat as healthy as possible. In addition, people may choose to lose weight, and exercise regularly to control hyper tension.
According to Tortora some of them include: coronary artery disease, myocardial infarctions, long-term high blood pressure, congenital defects, heart attacks, and conditions that overwork the heart. (Tortora, 2014, pg.724)
dangerous for the body, and can many times lead to being very ill or death.
depression, and other mental conditions. They lack motivation and confidence in themselves and their lives. All of these things can be a result of simply not living a healthy lifestyle. An estimated 34.9% of American adults are obese, that doesn’t include people who are just overweight and not clinically obese! About 61% of American adults are at least overweight (O’Dell). Unhealthy eating and inactivity contributes to 310,000 to 580,000 deaths each year, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). That’s thirteen times more deaths than are caused by guns and 20 times more than by drug use (“Cost”). There are many causes which can contribute to poor habits. Dysfunctional family situations such as divorce, single parent family, or foster care. Families not eating meals together. Poor eating habits modeled by parents/caretakers. Lack of knowledge about what is healthy to eat and how to exercise. Busy schedule, extreme amounts of traveling,lack of desire to eat healthy, poverty, depression and other emotional extremes (Avnet). Diseases and harmful substances are the causes of many deaths, but at the root of most death is a plain old unhealthy lifestyle. It is ignorance that is killing people, it’s as simple as a few posters here or a few commercials there to tell people just a few simple facts that could actually save their lives.
The effects include paralysis of a limb or one side of the body and disturbances of speech and vision. The nature and extent of damage depends on the size and location of the affected blood vessels. The main causes are cerebral infarction (approx. 85%) and spontaneous intracranial haemorrhage (15%) (Waugh & Grant, 2010).
the result greater risk that these health problems pose for other serious chronic conditions—including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and elevated cholesterol and blood pressure levels—cannot be overlooked.
and the supply to part of the heart is cut off, can result in a heart
Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH diet) have recommended increasing dietary potassium intake through consumption of fruits and vegetables which are high in potssium14. There several other proposed beneficial effects of K+ such as decreased sensitivity to norepinephrine and angiotensin II, and baroreceptor sensitivity15.