Health Talk on Hypertension

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What is hypertension:
It is not a communicable disease. It is a silent killer disease.

     **Kinds of hypertension**

Physiological hypertension grows within an individual

Essential hypertension is caused by heredity

Secondary hypertension is caused by something maybe an occurrence.
Blood pressure:
*120/80 millimeter of mercury is the normal blood pressure.

140/90 millimeter of mercury is the blood pressure that someone has hypertension.

140/149
----------- is a mild blood pressure
90/99

150/159
----------- is a moderate blood pressure
100/109

160/170
---------- is a very high blood pressure.
110/120 *
classical symptoms

1. Headache
2. Transient systemic attack
3. Stroke(mild stroke)
   
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     **causes**

There are two causes of hypertension which are:

1. Nature: from family, almost every family on earth has a disease. Hence, heredity can cause hypertension.
2. Nurture: This has to do with individual lifestyle. Eg. Alcohol consumption, unhealthy eating habit, drugs, obesity, too much red meat, excess salt, over anxiety, certain disease condition etc.
   complications of hypertension
3. Masculine headache
4. May not be able to sleep
5. Retinopathy (eye problem)
6. Diabetes miletis
7. Infertility
8. Neuropaty
9. It may lead to coma
10. Stroke
11. Sudden unexpected death which we see this day in the young affluent men.

preventive measures

1. Know your family history.
2. Check you blood pressure regularly
3. If you are diagnosed hypertensive, take your medications very religiously.
4. Decease from drinking alcohol
5. Avoid red meat, go for seafood.
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