Blood Pressure and Heart Attack
Blood pressure and heart attack are separate entities to discuss it. The blood pressure measurement is the most important test for identifying people who are at high risk of developing heart attacks. So let us discuss the causes of hypertension or high blood pressure.
What is Blood Pressure?
Blood pressure is a measurement of internal resistance created by blood vessels. This is measured with the instrument Sphygmomanometer by doctors.
Nowadays there are a lot of user-friendly electronic instruments are available to measure from the home or the office itself.
High Blood Pressure Monitors help patients to act on time.
An increase in blood pressure is known as High Blood Pressure or Hypertension and a decrease is known as Hypo tension.
What is High Blood Pressure or Hypertension?
The upper reading of blood pressure is known as Systole and the lower one is Diastole, measured in mm of Hg(mercury).
High Blood Pressure is classified into Mild, Moderate, and Severe types
Many Causes of High Blood Pressure can be modified.
Blood Pressure and Heart Attack
Blood pressure is the most significant tool to identify people who are having a high risk for heart attack.
The increase in blood pressure increases pressure(pressure overload) in the left side of the heart(left ventricle).
Due to pressure overload size of the heart increases known as hypertrophy of the left ventricle. With the increased size of the heart, it works for many years, the heart valve thickens and the demand for oxygen and nutrients increases.
The blood supply to the terminal area is decreased.
With decreased blood supply heart muscles (Myocardiam) struggles to pump blood.
Results in chest pain.
This pathologic reaction results in a heart attack.
Hypertension increases the possibility of the development of Arteriosclerosis. or Atherosclerosis
What is arteriosclerosis?
It is a process of deposition of fatty substances in the major and minor blood vessels. Atherosclerosis of coronary arteries(blood vessels that supply the heart) reduces the size of the lumen of the blood vessel and thereby increases the incidence of a Heart Attack.
High Blood Pressure Symptoms
Giddiness or Dizziness due to transient ischemia(blood loss) in the brain
Head ache-usually occipital (side part of forehead) area.
Palpitation
Fainting
Drowsiness
Bleeding from nose(epistaxis)
Restlessness
palpitation
Angina Pectoris(chest pain)
Breathlessness(dyspnea) due to heart failure
Haematuria(passing blood in the urine)
Blurring of vision due to changes in the retina(a portion of the back side of the eye where images are received. Due to increased blood pressure in blood vessels leads to "hypertensive Retinopathy")
First Aid
The patient should take rest. The patient may lie down or sit to return to normal status because the symptoms of hypertension manifest in exertions like
Fear
Disturbed emotional status( Example: Being angry)
After rest patient should seek the physician for further medication.
Control the blood pressure and heart attack by taking proper treatment and very importantly reduce the causes of blood pressure.
Conclusion
High Blood pressure or Hypertension is a disease known as a "Silent Killer".
Because the majority of the people who are having High Blood Blood Pressure are not aware of the disease.
High Blood Pressure doesn't show any significant symptoms in the initial stages
Because increased blood pressure causes Heart Attacks, Kidney Failure, and Hypertensive Retinopathies in the eyes and various vital organs of our body. So it is wise to control Blood Pressure and Heart Attack to live a healthy life.
