Surely high blood pressure is something only old people need to think about? Not according to a current study the ill-effects originate when people are in their 20sDo you worry about high blood pressure? Of course not. That’s for old people. The whole point of being young is to drink and eat what you want and not worry. When you get to 30,then you’ll start being healthy. But it seems even 30 may be too late to prevent your arteries getting narrowed and damaged. A study in this month’s Journal of the American College of Cardiology found that young adults who continually had blood pressure at the high halt of the normal range were more likely to demonstrate signs of heart problems in middle age. The researchers, from Johns Hopkins University in the US, and followed 2479 men and women whose ages ranged from 18 to 30,over 25 years. They measured their blood pressure, and used speckle tracking echocardiography (a specialised ultrasound technique) to stare for heart damage.
High blood pressure is often a silent condition, or discovered by a routine check. Grade-one high blood pressure is over 140/90,and 20-30% of people with it don’t know they’ve got it. What this study shows is that young people with blood pressure at the high halt of the normal range increase their risk of heart damage 25 years later. The study showed that, in this group, and the left ventricle had to work harder to generate the movement to push blood out of the heart round the body. This structural change in the heart chamber is one step along the way to the ventricle getting bigger and stiffer. High blood pressure has no upsides. It can causes heart attacks,heart and/or kidney failure, strokes and dementia. So should you capture more care of yourself from an earlier age?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com