Signs Of High Blood Pressure - Absent Until An Advanced Stage
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High blood pressure is a disease whose onset does not come with any warning signs or symptoms. Signs of high blood pressure are typically absent in a patient. No wonder, it is known as the silent killer. It is only when hypertension has reached a very advanced stage that signs and symptoms become apparent.
Symptoms of hypertension (high blood pressure), when it has reached an advanced stage are typically headaches, epistaxis (nosebleed), and dizziness and fatigue.
Other symptoms and signs after the disease has already reached a very advanced stage includes breathlessness (especially after climbing stairs), ringing in ears (tinnitus), drowsiness or ansomnia (sleepiness), blurred vision, confusion, restlessness, vomiting, reduced libido, seizures, moderate chest pain, blood in the urine, profuse sweating, and sometimes even coma.
An important aspect of the symptoms is that many of these symptoms can occur as easily in normal blood pressure patients too. So diagnosis of hypertension just based on signs and symptoms may be flawed. In case a person does not display the above signs and symptoms, it is no guarantee for hypertension to be ruled out. It might be that the person has hypertension, but typically does not show any signs or the disease has not yet reached an advanced stage. High blood pressure is a lifestyle disease that has both primary and secondary causes. The primary cause is that no 'specific cause' can be isolated, which can be attributed as causing hypertension in an individual. This is known as primary hypertension or 'essential hypertension'. Approximately 95% hypertension patients suffer from it. It is always a combination of primary factors that makes a person susceptible to essential hypertension. Such primary factors include a sedentary lifestyle, obesity, smoking, a cholesterol-rich and excessively salty diet, stress, alcohol consumption, ethnicity, gender, and heredity. Another important facet of the above factors is that the way in which they affect varies from individual to individual. Some people are afflicted with temporary hypertension due to their fear of meeting doctors. Only about 5% hypertension patients suffer from secondary hypertension. In secondary hypertension, an underlying condition is responsible for the hypertension. Secondary causes of hypertension include renal disease, metabolic and hormonal disorders, congenital heart disease, pregnancy, and tumor of the adrenal gland (phechromocytoma). A hypertension patient with a tumor of the adrenal gland will display symptoms of unstable/rapid heart beats, perspiration, headache, anxiety, and paleness. It is important for people to get their blood pressure checked up periodically, especially in the thirties and thereafter. During blood pressure checkup, the sureshot sign of high blood pressure is if the systolic/diastolic blood pressure figures show up more than 140/90 mm Hg (high normal figures for an adult) respectively. Some people may have purely systolic hypertension, whereas some may have diastolic hypertension. Some others may have both diastolic as well as systolic hypertension. And the signs of high blood pressure would vary according to the condition.
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