What a Compelling Blood Pressure Finding Means for Patients

ScrAPES#8: What a Compelling Blood Pressure Finding Means for Patients

by Gina Kolata

September 11, 2015

In What a Compelling Blood Pressure Finding Means for Patients, scientists and doctors researched about large blood pressure and developed that participants with systolic blood pressure below 120 had a lower death rate and a minor amount of heart attacks and strokes in the contrary of those with a blood pressure of 140. Participants attained drugs that were mainly classified in 4 categories; diuretics which shorten blood volume, calcium which expands blood vessels through blockers, angiotensin receptor blockers that sections hormones that create blood vessels constrict and beta blockers that passively slow the heart. This study from scientists and doctors ended abruptly more than year from the standard schedule due to compelling data.

This article interests me so much because in my own experience my pediatric doctor announced that I have a blood pressure of 120/90. So unassumingly I speculated that it was a normal blood pressure. But when I searched on the internet about the blood pressure chart it states that blood pressure that is 120-139/80-89 is considered prehypertension. Finding this information astonished me because my mother has high blood pressure and I have heard of family members who had prehypertension, and honestly I am not surprised. I do not know if it effects me or if it is a blood pressure chart for adults. If it were true I wonder why my doctor has not told me that I have hypertension. Is it because I am too sickly? 

Blood pressure effects the environment because people with high blood pressure most likely has it due to smoking, overweight or obesity, too much alcohol and salt, and stress. Almost everyone in the world has either been stressed plenty of times, smokes, or loves salty food. Approximately thirty-six percent of adults are considered to be obese in the United States and that more than 2 billion people worldwide are considered overweight or obese. These all cause high blood pressure; which is now the world's leading cause of premature death. Blood pressure can lead to diabetes and diabetes can cause death. My mother always tell me to cut down on sugary foods or beverages because it is a cause of diabetes. In my personal opinion I expect that the world will not stop the causes of high blood pressure or diabetes. 

Resources: 

• What a Compelling Blood Pressure Finding Means for Patients 
• Hypertension/High Blood Pressure Health Center
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