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Reducing High Blood Pressure and Preventing Hypertension

Reducing High Blood Pressure and Preventing Hypertension. By: Matt Hill Audience: People who experience HBP, People 40+. What is Hypertension. Elevated High Pressure Making heart work harder Can be maintained If it gets to high: Can ead to stroke Heart attack Overweight and obesity

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Reducing High Blood Pressure and Preventing Hypertension

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  1. Reducing High Blood Pressure and Preventing Hypertension By: Matt Hill Audience: People who experience HBP, People 40+

  2. What is Hypertension • Elevated High Pressure • Making heart work harder • Can be maintained • If it gets to high: • Can ead to stroke • Heart attack • Overweight and obesity • Cardiovascular disease

  3. How Does Your BP get high? Diet Ethnicity Heredity Gender Exercise Alcohol Smoking

  4. Hypertension Readings Systolic/Diastolic, mm of Mercury Normal BP is 120/80

  5. Facts About High Blood Pressure Most common CVD Leading factor that leads to a stroke Force of blood pushing against artery walls

  6. Silent Killer Disease • 1/3 of people do not know they have it • Disease without symptoms • Very dangerous • Need to have it check by a nurse/doctor

  7. Who is at Risk Everyone Male 45+, Female 55+ African American individuals Overweight people Diabetics smoker/drinker

  8. How to Treat and Reduce Hypertension Do not smoke Lower sodium intake Exercise Drinking?

  9. Strategies • Get checked often if your BP is elevated • Do not live a sedentary lifestyle • Need at least 10,000 steps a day • Improve diet • Reduce stress levels • Stress ball • Relaxing breathing techniques • Get adequate sleep

  10. Facts about Smoking • Leading cause for cardiovascular diseases: • Stroke • Hypertension • Heart attack • Do not make your heart work harder than it needs to • Cigarettes are filled with harmful toxins that the body does not need/want

  11. Facts about Alcohol • Drinking Alcohol socially, in moderation is ok • When is too much harmful? • excessive binge drinking • Binge drinking is 4+ drinks in one sitting

  12. Hereditary Facts about BP Unfortunately if someone in your family has hypertension you are more likely to get it Especially if you are African American

  13. Misconceptions • If you are in shape you will not get high BP • FALSE • IF you are thin, you will not get high BP • FALSE • If I am overweight, I have high BP • Not necessarily true • Treating high BP is hard and time consuming • Not difficult, and not as time consuming as you may think

  14. How to Check Your BP • Roll up sleeves • Take pulses • Radial and brachial • Make sure cuff fits snug • Listen clearly • Does not hurt If you have not had it done before, do not worry it does not hurt

  15. Blood Pressure Ranges This type of high blood pressure needs medical attention ASAP!

  16. Instruments used for checking BP Sphygmomanometer Stethoscope

  17. Harmful effects from High Blood Pressure • High Blood Pressure increases one’s risk of: • Stroke • Heart attack • Kidney disease • Heart failure • Aneurysms • Overall will shorten your life expectancy

  18. Review YOU

  19. Review • Do not take HBP lightly 1/3 of people do not know they have it! • AKA it’s called the silent killer!

  20. Take Your Health Serious Hypertension/Blood Pressure is a very serious issue Take care of your body Do not want heart to fail

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