High Blood pressure causes
What causes high blood pressure?
a direct answer please.
Answer :
Lack of exercise and poor eating habits.
Anxiety causes high blood pressure. Does it work vise versa?
I ask because I am being treated for both aflictions.
Answer :
There is a mysterious, not fully-understood connection between high BP and anxiety. Both anxiety and BP fluctuation can be caused by disruption or malfunction in the autonomic nervous system. Please read about Dysautonomia by typing it in to your search engine.
What causes cystolic high blood pressure?
My cystolic pressure is almost always high or borderline and diastolic is usually arount 60 to 65. I amy currently taking 150 mg. of Atenolol daily and still have problems.
Answer :
sissyd,
From your description, it seems that you have Isolated Systolic Hypertension. I would be a bit concerned about it, for if your diastolic pressure is normal and your systolic is high, you very well could have a developing problem. The greater the difference between the systolic and diastolic (what is known as “pulse pressure”), the harder each pulse is on your artery walls.
This condition often comes from inflammation in the arteries themselves. This inflammation stiffens the artery walls and is considered to be an indication of artery damage already present.
If your systolic is borderline high, then it’s around 150? 160? With a diastolic of 60 or 65, that’s a pretty hefty pulse pressure, and I would think that you’d want to do a few things about it:
1. Do tell your doctor about it and see if he can prescribe a different hypertension medication, perhaps a slow-acting nitrate, or perhaps felodipine or ramipril (or both of these), all of which have been shown effective against Isolated Systolic Hypertension, the kind that you apparently have.
2. Change your lifestyle, especially your diet. If you haven’t already, you must cut out salt and alcohol. You must also lose weight. Now, I’m not saying that you are excessively heavy, I don’t know, but I’ll bet you could stand to lose a few pounds. That will help, too.
Some years ago my doc told me that he’d like me to lose a few pounds, and I thought he was being excessively picky. I am 5′ 8″ and I weighed 160 pounds, only two pounds over what had been considered my “ideal weight.”
Well, several years later, for other reasons I did lose weight. I’m now 140 pounds and feel great, run faster, my cholesterol is down significantly, and my blood pressure–never high to begin with–is even lower than it was. Losing weight even when we are not considered heavy is beneficial. Most of us in the West weigh too much, anyway. We’ve had plenty of studies to prove that.
3. Exercise, especially running. That will lower your blood pressure, weight, and increase your heart efficiency.
4. Take aspirin and floss. No, really. A study a couple of years ago showed that people with a higher number of mouth/gum bacteria were at a higher risk of heart disease. We’re not yet sure of the cause, but we know this correlation. Since part of your problem is most likely inflammation, anyway, cut down on all sources of it in your body, especially the one(s) that we already know are associated with problems.
And the aspirin will cut down on the inflammation you most likely have in your arteries.
Please go to your doctor for a different medication tomorrow. While I almost always err on the safe side, in a case like this I’d feel a whole lot better if you were on a medication that we know works while you started your lifestyle changes.
Good luck.
Why do I have high Blood Pressure?
For the past few months since I have been going to the doctor
I keeping getting my blood pressure taken by a nurse. Everytime
it is always high. I had my cholesterol checked and it was very good. My parents don’t suffer from high blood pressure and I don’t eat salt because I don’t like it. The only thing my parents
could think of is I am a little overweight but my mom is a little
overweight and she does not have high blood pressure. It must have been really high because the doctor put me on a
medication. One thing I notice is that when I am really nervous and I get it taken it is really high but when I try to relax and they
take it again it’s little lower but high. Does being nervous contribute to high blood pressure?
Answer :
yes you being nervous does contribute to it being a little higher, however you may be doing somethings that you shouldn’t. for some tips to find out what you should be doing, try this link
http://www.beatinghypertension.com/natur…
Blood gets thick and causes high blood pressure when u workout?/?
I heard that blood gets thick when u do walk and running and it causes high blood pressure specially in winter is it true or no/.?? I m asking that because i have problem of high blood pressure .
Answer :
No, the opposite. Your blood gets thin when it’s well circulated and people who work out regularly (like me) have normal blood pressure, sometimes low following exercise. I know because I donate plasma, so my blood pressure is taken twice a week.
What are the physical symptoms of high blood pressure? Plz dont say none. Plz read on…?
I’ve tried to find online what the physical symptoms are of high blood pressure, what causes it & some home remedies to treat it. All I’ve read is that there are no physical signs of high blood pressure. But I’ve heard many people say they’ve felt bad & their BP must be up. I’m only 30. I don’t have health insurance. I went to the doctor Monday (had to pay) & for the 1st time in my life, I was told my BP was high, 140/90. The nurse askd if I’d been under a lot of stress, that answr is YES. So nthing else was said about it. I was worried about what they were going to tell me about something else, so she figured that’s what caused it to be high. I felt funny that day. Dizzy, weak, heart feeling like its racing & beating in my throat. Felt like I may pass out. I’ve felt like that every day since. So I’m worrying. Is that how high BP makes u feel? Can stress cause it? Can it be treated @ home? I don’t ha
ve ins. Any info is appreciated, thanks!
Answer :
SOmetimes you can feel dizzy when your blood pressure is up, but more likely it’s anxiety. Any time your blood pressure is elevated, your heartrate will be elevated too. Feeling like you may pass out, is probably also anxiety, because generally speaking. LOW blood pressure make you pass out. It can’t really be treated at home, if it is true hypertension. You can reduce your salt intake. Drink alot of water. Those things could help. Also, there are studies that say if you eat a teaspoon of cinnamon everyday (I sprinkle it in my coffee) that it drastically reduces blood pressure. And, definitely, stress can cause high blood pressure. But, you also may have white-coat hypertension (you were nervous at the appointment and therfore your BP was higher). Hope this helps. Good Luck!
High blood pressure at young age?
im 19 years old, very healthy and active, yet have a very high blood pressure. For the past 3months now my blood pressure has been consistently high and my gp is becoming quite concerned. What are the health implications with high blood pressure because my gp doesn’t tell me anything! she just says ‘we’d better keep an eye on it’ and nothing else.Should i be worried and what could be the reasons for my high blood pressure?
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firstly let me tell you the basic; your heart pumps blood. for this to happen there is a certain pressure with which it pumps out the blood through the arteries. if there is too much pressure, it is called ‘high blood pressure’. it may happen due to a lot of salty foods, and also too much stress. the narrow arteries increase the pressure. if left untreated, it can kill you with a stroke or heart attack. so you have to take special medicine to open up with narrowed down artery so that it remains low. you get it? high blood pressure kills
Why is high blood pressure bad?
it doesn’t make any sense to me because excercise increase’s your blood pressure and excercise is good for you but they say a high blood pressure is bad for you.
i’m confused????????????????????????????????
Answer :
Well it’s bad if it stays up for a long time. I had a echogram done, and one part of my heart is enlarged, and this can be caused by high blood pressure. It’s only enlarged a little but I have to take care, when the heart gets bigger it has to work harder to pump blood..
also high blood pressure can damage your kidneys.
Does eating pork causes high blood pressure?
Answer :
Yes. What a surprise! …the flesh of hogs that get absolutely NO exercise during their lifetime and get fed a diet of grain has lots of saturated fat and cholesterol.. and it causes high blood pressure in humans? Omg what a breakthrough! /sarcasm
Btw. Someone here mentioned exercise… Exercise does not burn off cholesterol.
Processed pork (bacon, hotdogs) also causes lung cancer.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles…
The reason a lot of people here are reluctant to consider pork unhealthy is because they’re defensive simply because it tastes good to them.
Physical activity causes diastolic blood pressure to go down, right?
And systolic blood pressure and heart rate to go down, correct?
Answer :
If you mean that physically active people, such as athletes, have lower blood pressures than the average person, you are correct.