High Blood Pressure and Why Lowering is Important

Why lowering high blood pressure is important is because it affects crucial life sustaining organs in an extremely negative way. Having high blood pressure increases your risk for heart disease and stroke, which are the first- and third-leading causes of death for Americans.

Considering how high blood pressure directly affects your brain, arteries, heart, kidneys, and eyes might stimulate you to take the action necessary to lower it.

Your Brain and high blood pressure may cause a stroke. Very high pressure can cause a break in one or more of your brain’s blood vessel(s), which in turn bleeds into the brain.

Your Arteries and high blood pressure has an association to “hardened” arteries, along with age. The stiffer the artery, the harder your heart and kidneys will have to work.

Your Heart and high blood pressure is a major risk factor for heart attack. Your arteries carry oxygen to your heart muscle, and when it doesn’t get enough, well, serious problem.

Your Kidneys and high blood pressure may result in narrowing and thicken of blood vessels to your kidney. Since the kidneys filters out and gets rid of your body’s wastes, less filtering equals waste build up. Not to mention your kidneys could fail, and then you will be looking at regular dialysis treatments or a transplant.

Your Eyes and high blood pressure might eventually cause your eyes blood vessels to burst or bleed. Blurry vision or even blindness could result.

All of this potential damage is why lowering your high blood pressure is important.

Today is the day to take steps to lower high blood pressure by adopting a healthy lifestyle.

Essentially maintain a healthy weight, get physically active, follow a healthy diet that emphasizes fruits, vegetables, and low fat dairy foods, reduce salt and sodium, and keep your alcohol consumption down to at least “still walking.”

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