What is significant hypertension?

What is significant hypertension?

Key facts. Hypertension ̶ or elevated blood pressure ̶ is a serious medical condition that significantly increases the risks of heart, brain, kidney and other diseases. An estimated 1.13 billion people worldwide have hypertension, most (two-thirds) living in low- and middle-income countries.

What is the clinical significance of hypertension?

Hypertension increases the risk of heart disease, stroke, and other cardiovascular disease, which combined account for one in 3 US deaths. Importantly, evidence suggests that blood pressure (BP) levels among children and adolescents (ie, youths) persist into adulthood.

How do you explain hypertension to a patient?

Normal blood pressure is below 120/80. If your systolic pressure is 120 to 129, and your diastolic pressure is less than 80, you have elevated blood pressure. A blood pressure above 130/80 is considered hypertension, or high blood pressure.

What do you do if a patient has hypertension?

Here’s what you can do:

1. Eat healthy foods. Eat a heart-healthy diet.
2. Decrease the salt in your diet. Aim to limit sodium to less than 2,300 milligrams (mg) a day or less.
3. Maintain a healthy weight.
4. Increase physical activity.
5. Limit alcohol.
6. Don’t smoke.
7. Manage stress.
8. Monitor your blood pressure at home.

Who is affected by hypertension?

The risk of high blood pressure increases as you age. Until about age 64, high blood pressure is more common in men. Women are more likely to develop high blood pressure after age 65.

What diseases can be caused by hypertension?

Uncontrolled high blood pressure can lead to complications including:

• Heart attack or stroke.
• Aneurysm.
• Heart failure.
• Weakened and narrowed blood vessels in your kidneys.
• Thickened, narrowed or torn blood vessels in the eyes.
• Metabolic syndrome.
• Trouble with memory or understanding.
• Dementia.

How can you use hypertension in a sentence?

Examples of Hypertension in a sentence Because of his family history of hypertension, the health conscious man avoided salt or any other food that would raise his blood pressure. 🔊 Checking her pressure with the cuff, the nurse practitioner confirmed her suspicion that the patient was suffering from hypertension. 🔊

Can a high blood pressure be a sign of hypertension?

Prehypertension can also stress the kidneys. A single blood pressure reading does not predict heart and blood vessel disease (also called cardiovascular disease). You won’t be diagnosed with hypertension or prehypertension until it is high on several occasions. A blood pressure reading higher than normal will need to be carefully monitored.

Why is hypertension a major cause of premature death?

Hypertension is a major cause of premature death worldwide. One of the global targets for noncommunicable diseases is to reduce the prevalence of hypertension by 25% by 2025 (baseline 2010). What is hypertension? Blood pressure is the force exerted by circulating blood against the walls of the body’s arteries, the major blood vessels in the body.

What’s the blood pressure for Stage 2 hypertension?

In 2017, the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association published new guidelines for hypertension management and defined high hypertension as a blood pressure at or above 130/80 mm Hg. Stage 2 hypertension is defined as a blood pressure at or above 140/90 mm Hg. 1

Examples of Hypertension in a sentence Because of his family history of hypertension, the health conscious man avoided salt or any other food that would raise his blood pressure. 🔊 Checking her pressure with the cuff, the nurse practitioner confirmed her suspicion that the patient was suffering from hypertension. 🔊

Hypertension is a major cause of premature death worldwide. One of the global targets for noncommunicable diseases is to reduce the prevalence of hypertension by 25% by 2025 (baseline 2010). What is hypertension? Blood pressure is the force exerted by circulating blood against the walls of the body’s arteries, the major blood vessels in the body.

In 2017, the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association published new guidelines for hypertension management and defined high hypertension as a blood pressure at or above 130/80 mm Hg. Stage 2 hypertension is defined as a blood pressure at or above 140/90 mm Hg. 1

What does it mean when your blood pressure is high?

Hypertension, also called high blood pressure, is blood pressure that is higher than normal. In 2017, the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association published new guidelines for hypertension management and defined high hypertension as a blood pressure at or above 130/80 mm Hg.