Hypertension: Controlling the 'Silent
Killer'
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It is almost certain that you or someone you
know has high blood pressure, known medically
as hypertension. An alarming one in three American
adults has this disorder.
Fortunately, high blood pressure is easy to
detect and treat. Sometimes people can keep blood
pressure in a healthy range simply by making
lifestyle changes, such as losing weight, increasing
activity, and eating more healthfully. In other
cases medication is necessary. Either way, reducing
your blood pressure even a little bit can dramatically
improve your health and life expectancy. According
to research published in 1995 in the Archives
of Internal Medicine, reducing diastolic
blood pressure by just 2 mm Hg would result in
a 6% reduction in the risk of coronary artery
disease and a 15% reduction in risk of stroke
and transient ischemic attacks.
This report lays out a step-by-step lifestyle
program you can use to lower your blood pressure.
It also covers blood pressure monitoring and
medications. With the information available today,
there is no need for hypertension to be a killer
any longer. 48 pages. (updated: 2007)
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Table of Contents:
- Blood pressure basics
- Understanding
the numbers
- What does blood
pressure measure?
- Types of hypertension
- Essential hypertension
- Isolated systolic
hypertension
- Secondary hypertension
- White-coat hypertension
- Labile hypertension
- Resistant hypertension
- Malignant hypertension
- Hypertension
during pregnancy
- Are you at risk for
hypertension?
- Risk factors
you can’t change
- Controllable
risk factors
- How hypertension
damages your health
- Stroke
- Coronary artery
disease
- Dementia
- Kidney disease
- Eye damage
- Diagnosing hypertension
- Testing for hypertension
- Monitoring blood
pressure at home
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- Treating high blood
pressure: An overview
- If your reading
is normal
- Prehypertension
- Stage 1 hypertension
- Stage 2 hypertension
- Adopting healthier
habits
- Eat well
- Quit smoking
- Cut back on alcohol
- Be active
- Attain a healthy
weight
- Stress less
- Medications for treating
hypertension
- Classes of hypertension
drugs
- Diuretics
- Anti-adrenergics
- Direct-acting
vasodilators
- Calcium-channel
blockers
- ACE inhibitors
- Angiotensin II
receptor blockers
- Renin inhibitors
- Drug combinations
- The right drug
for the right person
- Glossary
- Resources
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Excerpt from this Hypertension Special Health
Report
Years ago, doctors didn’t even treat high
blood pressure in older people. They thought
that hypertension was a normal part of aging,
along with gray hair and creaky joints. That
thinking changed in 1961, when investigators
from the landmark Framingham Heart Study concluded
that hypertension in fact increased risk for
cardiovascular disease. In the years since, physicians
discovered that high blood pressure can be
prevented, controlled, and even reduced in many
cases. Despite this understanding, more and more
people began to develop hypertension—and
at younger ages. Today, 690 million people worldwide,
including more than 65 million in the United
States, are thought to have high blood pressure.
Part of the problem is that many people with
hypertension don’t even know that they
have it. Because hypertension has no symptoms
or warning signs, yet can be so dangerous to
your health and well-being, it has earned the
nickname “the silent killer.”
That’s why it’s crucial to identify
the problem and get it under control sooner rather
than later. To this end, a panel of government
health experts is encouraging more aggressive
treatment and a lower threshold for “normal” blood
pressure. The result of these changes is that
millions of people who were once told that their
blood pressure was “normal” or “high-normal” now
fall into a “prehypertension” category.
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