High Blood Pressure and Congestive Heart Failure
High blood pressure is also called hypertension. This is a medical term which, by definition, means an individual has a numerical measurement of pressure that is greater than 140/90. These numbers represent a systolic pressure greater than 140 mm of mercury and a diastolic pressure greater than 90 mm of mercury.
Chronic hypertension has often been called the silent killer because it has little to no signs and symptoms and will not be picked up unless an individual is screened with a blood-pressure measurement.
It can cause blood vessel changes in the back of the eye which lead to cataracts and blindness. In it can also cause an abnormal thickening of the heart muscle which leads to heart failure and congestive heart failure or it can lead to kidney ... See the complete post here
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