hypertension-facts

BLOOD FACTS

  1. Length of blood vessels in the human body is over 60,000 miles. All blood vessels lined together can go round the world more than twice.
  2. Heart beats about 80 times in a minute, 115200 times in a day, 42048000 times in a year, without sick leave or holiday. When you have completed 80 years your heart has been beating 33363840000 times. When do you die? When your heart stops beating.
  3. 5 quarts a minute or 2,000 gallons a day.
  4. Hypertension is twice as common in people who are obese.
  5. African Americans are more prone to develop hypertension.
  6. People over 75 are most likely to have hypertension.
  7. The cause of hypertension cannot be diagnosed in 9 out of 10 people.

FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH HYPERTENSION/INCREASED BLOOD PRESSURE

  • Sedentary life style
  • Lack of physical activity
  • Stress
  • Aging
  • Obesity or being overweight
  • Diabetes
  • High levels of salt intake (sodium sensitivity)
  • Insufficient calcium, potassium, and magnesium consumption
  • Vitamin D deficiency
  • High levels of alcohol consumption
  • Birth Control Pills
  • Smoking
  • Genetics (heredity) and a family history of hypertension
  • Chronic kidney disease
  • Adrenal and thyroid problems or tumors


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