TWICE AS MANY PEOPLE live with hypertension as 30 years ago. Today. almost half of all adults in the United States have high blood pressure, but many are not aware of this fact. I think that is a tragedy. Hypertension is another name for high blood pressure. The condition can lead to severe health complications and increase the risk of heart disease, stroke, and early death.
About four in ten women and over half of men with high blood pressure are unaware of the condition. Compounding this problem is that 53 percent of women and 62 percent of men with hypertension will not receive appropriate treatment, most unaware that they had hypertension.
All of this is quite troubling to me, and when I saw the numbers, I thought I better check in with you.
You may consider concepts such as ‘risk factor modification’ and ‘prevention’ to be dull. They may not initiate or sustain the levels of motivation needed to make and maintain comprehensive lifestyle changes. — Dr. Dean Ornish
As you know, blood pressure is the force that blood exerts against the walls of our blood vessels. This pressure depends on the resistance of the blood vessels and how hard the heart has to work.
High blood pressure is a central risk factor for cardiovascular disease. THink heart attack, stroke, heart…
