HEALTH MATTERS - High Blood Pressure is a Killer!

Do you have high blood pressure?

OR

Do you know someone who has high blood pressure?

And you want a solution that works, naturally without any medication?

Persistent high blood pressure also referred to as hypertension is one of the risk factors for stroke, heart attack, heart failure, arterial aneurysm and so many other diseases.

Hypertension is one of the leading causes of death today. It is called the silent killer and it derived this name because you could have the disease and not know it and it kills you silently without you knowing until it's too late. Please do not let that happen to you.

A lot of Nigerians are afflicted with this disease and the worst part is that it not only affects the elderly as many may think, it affects a lot of young people also.

High blood pressure is not a disease one should joke with. It is sad that lots of Nigerians do not take their health seriously, please do not be one of them. High blood pressure accounts for a large percentage of death in Nigeria today.

High blood pressure is a serious condition!

It kills!!! Do something before it wastes your life.

What is this high blood pressure and how does it occur? HBP occurs when the pressure or force with which blood circulating against the walls of the arteries is high. When it is high, it causes the heart to do more work which eventually damages the heart, when the pressure is high it also stiffens and damages the arteries which transports needed blood all over the body and gradually ruins the body organs they serve, exposing you to high risk of end organ damage. These end organs fed by the circulatory system are the brain, heart, kidney, eyes, and reproductive organs.

A normal blood pressure should be 120/80 mmHg, anything above this is abnormal and needs attention!

High Blood Pressure is not child's play and should be taken seriously!!!!

If you have been diagnosed with high blood pressure then you could become a victim of the following disease:

• Stroke
• Heart attack
• Heart failure
• Arterial aneurysm
• Damage to your eyes
• Brain damage
• Kidney disease and failure
• Death!!

Some people take medications on a regular basis to manage their high blood pressure and these people practically rely on this medication all their lives. This is burdensome and doesn't seem nice right?

These medications indeed have their own side effects which also complicate your health; you certainly don't need any more complications, do you? Apart from that, having to buy these medications takes a toll on your purse. It may interest you to know that high blood pressure medications have the following side effects:

• Fatigue
• Dizziness
• Depression
• Impotence
• Liver damage
• Insomnia
• Heart palpitations
• Aches and pains on the joints
• and so on

These are all harmful effects, people taking these medications must be sick and tired of the expensive drugs and the complications the medications cause their health and well being.

Courtesy healthylivingguy.com

Edited for NYNA Blog by Kabeer M. Adamu