Health eduaction of hypertention.ppt

Chinese watermelon 冬瓜 white gourd green pepper 青椒persimmon [p?:‘sim?n, p?-] 柿子 watermelon [‘w?:t?mel?n, ’w?-] 西瓜 tomato cauliflower [k?li,flau?] and tomato Cherry lemon [lem?n]柠檬 pear High blood pressure increases your chance for getting heart disease and kidney disease or for having a stroke. It is especially dangerous because it has no warning signs or symptoms. It is estimated that one in every four Americans has high blood pressure. Once it develops it can last a lifetime. How does it effect the body? High blood pressure is the most important risk facto for stroke. This can happen with a break in a weakened blood vessel which bleeds in the brain. A stroke can also happen when a blood clot blocks one of the narrowed arteries in the brain. High blood pressure is a major risk for heart attack. The arteries bring oxygen carrying blood to the heart muscle. If the heart cannot get oxygen, chest pain know as angina can occur. If the flow of blood is blocked a hart attack results. Hypertension is also the number one risk factor of congestive heart failure. Which is a condition in which the heart cannot pump enough blood to meet the body’s needs. Kidneys act as filters to rid the body of wastes. High blood pressure can narrow and thicken the blood vessels. This makes it hard on the kidneys which will filter less blood. This results in waste building up in the blood and may result in the kidneys failing all together. Dialysis or kidney transplant my be needed in this situation. As people get older arteries throughout the body harden especially those in the heart, brain, and kidneys. This in turn causes the kidneys and heart to work harder and can contribute to a number of problems. Doctors will diagnose a person with two or more readings of 140/90 or higher taken on several occasions. A reason that it has to be more than one occasion is the occurrence of “White Coat Hypertension.” Some people experience high blood pressure simply from the stre