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Zone nowadays that modern living can have a major impact on our health and one area where this is often overlooked is that of high blood pressure. The medical term for raised blood pressure is hypertension and very often this potentially life threatening condition can go undiagnosed because unless it is severe, hypertension doesn't usually cause any symptoms.
However it's important to reduce abnormally high blood pressure because hypertension increases the chances of having a stroke, heart attack, heart failure and kidney damage.
A simple analogy of high blood pressure can be made if you think of your heart like a central heating system where the heart is the water pump. If the pipes of the system are narrow or more restricted than they should be then the pump needs to work harder to push water round them.
This leads to increased pressure on the pump itself which can cause it to fail (heart disease, heart attacks, etc) and even if the pump doesn't fail any weaknesses in the joints of the pipes can cause them to leak (strokes, etc).
However it's important to reduce abnormally high blood pressure because hypertension increases the chances of having a stroke, heart attack, heart failure and kidney damage.
A simple analogy of high blood pressure can be made if you think of your heart like a central heating system where the heart is the water pump. If the pipes of the system are narrow or more restricted than they should be then the pump needs to work harder to push water round them.
This leads to increased pressure on the pump itself which can cause it to fail (heart disease, heart attacks, etc) and even if the pump doesn't fail any weaknesses in the joints of the pipes can cause them to leak (strokes, etc).
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