HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE FOOTBALL PLAYER JOE MONTANA HAD IT VIDEO EXPLAINS WHAT IS HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE WHO HAS HYPERTENSION
HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE FOOTBALL PLAYER JOE MONTANA HAD IT VIDEO EXPLAINS WHAT IS HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE WHO HAS HYPERTENSION
ONE IN FOUR AMERICANS HAVE HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE HALF DONT KNOW IT
Most doctors will diagnose a person with high blood pressure on the basis of two or more readings, taken on several occasions. A consistent blood pressure reading of 140/90 mmHg or higher is considered high blood pressure,called in medical terms hypertension and need blood pressure treatment.In this video a doctor explains high blood pressure and points out that you can have high blood pressure and not feel it or know it. He points to football player Joe Montana as an example.
In 80 to 90 percent of cases people have what is called essential hypertension. A fancy moniker for "we don't know why". But even though medical science doesn't why most people have high blood pressure doctors can treat high blood pressure successfully. Many people will need blood pressure medication. But an expert panel said lifestyle changes can impact your blood pressure too!
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Just "as with cholesterol levels, the concept of a normal blood pressure has fallen strikingly as doctors learn what it takes to preserve good health.Lacking good treatments for hypertension, no doctor was concerned when, at age 57, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s blood pressure was 170/90. And so the president’s blood pressure rose inexorably over the next six years, and on April 12, 1945, at age 63 and with a pressure of 200/110, he died of a brain hemorrhage caused by severe hypertension".
