How does age affect blood pressure? why do older people usually have higher blood pressure than the young ones?
How old is 'older' and how young is 'young'? It is no use coming here and asking questions unless you're willing to bare your very soul. ;) Babies and very young children have lower blood pressures because their hearts are smaller and have smaller stroke volumes (the amount of blood per pump). That's normal for the ages; it goes up roughly with height. Their heart rates are higher than older children/adults, too. If we're talking about ages past young childhood, older people tend to have more of the habits or conditions that predispose to hypertension: smoking, obesity, intake of salt and alcohol, lack of exercise. Most adolescent/adult hypertension is what's called essential hypertension, meaning that there's no clear-cut cause of it, but we do know that changing factors like those can change the blood pressure. In young kids, high blood pressure is usually caused by an underlying problem. At the other end of the scale, much older people also have older blood vessels, and it's the nature of blood vessels to become less compliant (less stretchy) as they age. When blood vessels don't stretch and bounce back as easily, the average pressure is higher. When you're talking about people who are, say, over 80, this becomes a factor to the point where I've been told that in geriatrics they use different definitions of 'normal blood pressure.'
How do you manage malignant hypertension?
Malignant hypertension is usually defined as very high blood pressure with swelling of the optic nerve behind the eye, called papilledema (grade IV Keith-Wagner hypertensive retinopathy). Malignant hypertension is usually accompanied by other organ damage like heart failure, kidney failure, and hypertensive encephalopathy. Hospitalization is essential until the severe high blood pressure is under control. Medications delivered through an IV line, such as nitroprusside, nitroglycerin, or others, may reduce your blood pressure. After the severe high blood pressure is brought under control, anti-hypertensive medications taken by mouth can control your blood pressure. The medication may need to be adjusted occasionally..
Can you have BOTH hypertension AND hypotension?
Yes. Your diastolic could be high or low, and your systolic could be the opposite. This condition usually comes shortly before a life threatening cardiac event, i.e. a heart attack.
Blood pressure 140/90 at the age of 28 male. How bad or serious it is?
You are on the border of Pre-hypertension and Stage-1 Hypertension, which is alarming at your young age!You need to make conscious lifestyle changes to improve your health, because hypertension is a silent killer. It slowly damages a lot of organs internally and there are no symptoms to be seen.I have explained a lot of things in my blog on how to control high blood pressure naturally.Controllable Causes Of High Blood Pressure are:ObesitySmoking- first hand or second handDiabetesHigh Sodium, unhealthy dietHigh cholesterolChronic alcoholismLack of physical activity and exerciseStress and anxietyTake these steps to get things under control:Quit smoking immediately, if you do.2. Start physical activities like running, walking, and even yoga.3. Avoid sodium-rich foods. Junk food like burgers and french fries are severely high in sodium.4. Increase potassium intake. Dates and banana are rich source of potassium.5. Although your condition is not yet critical, consulting a doctor is advisable.Try Ayurvedic medicine for high blood pressure - Divya Mukta Vati. It works wonders to normalize your BP.
Renal artery stenosis?
I am 23 and recently started taking Lisinopril for stage 2 hypertension. So far, I have increased my dose from 10 mg to 20 mg without any signifigant results. My BP still averages 170/110. I know, that's insane at my age. My doctor thinks I may have renal artery stenosis and has ordered an ultrasound. My question is, what kind of effects will this have on my life? I'm terrified I will have to have a stint put it, but it seems that may be the path I'm going down. My doctor and my nutritionist say that my diet does not play a role, because I eat low-fat low-sodium and have my whole life. What kind of problems could I have in the future from this?
I have high blood pressure at age of 25. How long can I expect to live?
In my teenage years, my blood pressure was taken by a nurse at a health check. I then heard her whisper to the doctor conducting the medical examination, “Did you ever see blood pressure like that?”The doctor stared into space. I presumed that it was good, because I was well into physical fitness. However, a few years later, I failed to get into the Royal Navy because of high BP, which astonished me, because I had just run a marathon in 3 hours 16 minutes. Not brilliant, but I was on the 92nd percentile of the field of runners.Forty years later, when I was 60 years old, my sister, who is a staff nurse, took my BP when I was visiting one Christmas. It was over 200 by 100. All she said was, “See your doctor.”I then finally started getting concerned and bought my own BP monitor. The highest I recorded, was 237/125. The doctor put me on 2 pills, Amlodipine and Simvastatin. I continued on these for about 6 years.Then, I was in the local hostelry and two 24 year old soldiers walked in. They were very fit and we're talking about the level of physical fitness, they had attained. After one or two beers, they challenged others to a push-up or press-up competition (they were US soldiers). Long story short: at age 65 years, I won with 79 press-ups in 60 seconds and my best opponent only made 63.Thinking, that I was cured of high BP, I immediately went to my doctor to get off the pills, because it was getting tedious taking them. The doctor put me on 24 hour monitoring and after that recommended that I should have an additional pill, Lisinopril. My BP was still ridiculously high.All I can say is that I am 68 years old and still alive as of writing this. I keep taking the pills and by the way I have maintained a fitness regime throughout my life and hope to live a lot longer.My BP still causes alarms, but it is possible my fitness regime is saving my life.
Why do I have high blood pressure at age 22?
Your body mass index is 23.7 and you have normal weight. You have got stage 1 hypertension (Isolated systolic hypertension). Isolated systolic hypertension is defined as a systolic pressure that is above 140 mm Hg with a diastolic pressure that is below 90. Your pulse pressure is (1) 158 -- 96 = 62 mmHg. (2) 148 -- 75 = 73 mmHg. (3) 156 -- 70 = 86 mmHg. Optimum pulse pressure is 40 mmHg. Pulse pressure > 40 mmHg is abnormal. Lifestyle changes can help you control and prevent high blood pressure — even if you're taking blood pressure medication. Here's what you can do:-- * Eat healthy foods. * Decrease the salt in your diet. * Maintain a healthy weight. * Increase physical activity. * Limit alcohol. * Don't smoke. * Manage stress. * Monitor your blood pressure at home. * Practice relaxation or slow, deep breathing. Adopt DASH diet (Mediterranean diet). Eat a low-cholesterol, low-fat diet, which includes cottage cheese, fat-free milk, fish, vegetables, poultry, and egg whites. Use monounsaturated oils such as olive, peanut, and canola oils or polyunsaturated oils such as corn, safflower, soy, sunflower, cottonseed, and soybean oils. Avoid foods with excess fat in them such as meat (especially liver and fatty meat), egg yolks, whole milk, cream, butter, shortening, pastries, cakes, cookies, gravy, peanut butter, chocolate, olives, potato chips, coconut, cheese (other than cottage cheese), coconut oil, palm oil, and fried foods. Check your lipid profile (Total cholesterol. LDL, HDL and triglyceride.)