Hypertension --- an Overview

HYPERTENSION ---AN OVERVIEW

High Blood pressure (HBP) also called Hypertension, is a common

cause for heart attack, stroke and renal failure. culminating in premature

disability and untimely death.

SPHYGMOMONOMETER is a device to measure blood pressure.

What is High blood pressure ?

The heart during rest normally contracts and relaxes 60 - 90 times per minute.

with each contraction the heart expels blood into the aorta.

The flowing blood exerts pressure on the side wall of blood vessel and is called

ontraction or systolic pressure.

After this, heart relaxes or dilates to receive blood and the pressure during

this phase is called diastolic B.P.

Thus B.P has two components, systolic and diastolic.

The systolic is written above the line and diastolic below.

As the level of B.P is related to the age, the B.P of 120/80 in adults upto age

30 and of 140/90 in middle age is considered as normal.

Classification and nomenclature as a practical guide.

1) Border line High blood pressure .-----> B.P more than 140/90mm Hg,
but reurning to normal at other times.

2) Mild HBP ------> 140/95 ------160/105

3) Moderate HBP -----> 160/105 -----------180/115

4) Severe HBP -------> more than 180/115

5) Malignant ---------> 240/140 and above.

The majority of them have non specific symptoms like headache (23%)

impatience (35%), depression (7%), dizziness (30%) and nose bleed.

" In patients with High blood pressure complications like heart attack

are 3 times, stroke 7 times and congestive Cardiac failure 4 times greater

compared to people with normal B.P.

Health Jokes
------------------------------

1) Some people are no good at counting calories and they have the figures

to prove it.

2) A good many people commit suicide with a knife and fork.

3) Doctor to a patient : "Congratulations The high price of meat, butter and

eggs has cleared up your cholesterol ".

4) Taste Makes Waist

Pertly precise
---------------------------

1) Appetizers : Those little bits you eat until you lose your appetite.

2) Gossip : Letting the chat out of the bag.

3) ZOO : A place devised for animals to study the habits of human beings.

4) Ignorance : A Voluntary Condition of Bliss.

5) Philosophy : Unintelligible answer to insoluble problems.

6) Experience : Yesterday's answer to todays problem.

7) Sculpture : mud pies that endure.

8) Prescription : -Hiieroglyphics written by a physician, to be translated

by a pharmacist to rupee signs.

Beware of desperate steps; the darkest day, lived till tomorrow,

will have passed away!.

Not in the dictationary
-----------------------

1) Archives : Where Noah kept his bees.

2) Athletics : The excuse for institutions of higher learning.

3) Bacteria : Back of cafeteria.

4) Compliments : False hoods infull dress.

5) Darwin : The man who made money out of Adam.

Writer................Dr.BV Dugani MRCP

Summary by R.Krishnakumar.



Ads by Google