Effects of high and low blood pressure on your body
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Blood pressure is the pressure exerted by circulating blood upon the walls of blood vessels.
Blood pressure can be of two types; high blood pressure or hypertension and low blood pressure known as hypotension. Nowadays, more and more people are being a victim of either of the above mentioned blood pressure related problems due to stress, lifestyle changes and junk-food addiction. Both high and low blood pressure can be equally dangerous if it is not treated well. So it's time start controlling your blood pressure before it causes any damage to your body and health. Today, we have a detailed plan ready for you to tackle blood pressure with the help of Dr. K.M. Sunesara - General Physician, Mumbai.
High Blood Pressure:
Effects of High Blood Pressure # 1: Artery damage
High blood pressure can damage the cells of your arteries especially the inner linings. Due to high blood pressure, the pressure exerted on the walls make the artery walls thick and stiff. This constant action on the walls of the arteries can lead to a disease called as arteriosclerosis, i.e. hardening of the arteries. This damage can further block the blood flow to your hearts, kidneys, brain, arms and legs, which can lead to many complications.
Effects of High Blood Pressure # 2: Aneurysm
Due to constant high pressure, the arteries of your walls can be weakened. Over time, when the constant pressure of the blood moving through the weak arteries can cause a section of the artery wall to bulge, it is also known as aneurysm. Aneurysm can be life threatening, as it can potentially rupture and can cause internal bleeding.
Effects of High Blood Pressure # 3: Stroke
High blood pressure also increases the risk of occurrence of stroke. Very high pressure can cause a break in a weakened blood vessel which then bleeds in the brain. This can further cause a stroke.
Effects of High Blood Pressure # 4: Eyesight
High blood pressure can cause blood vessels in the eye to burst or bleed. This can give you a blurry vision, which can ultimately lead to total, or partial blindness.
Effects of High Blood Pressure # 5: Heart failure
The strain on your heart caused by high blood pressure can cause your heart muscle to weaken and work less efficiently. Eventually, this will lead your muscular heart to fail.
Effects of High Blood Pressure # 6: Dementia
Vascular dementia can result from narrowing and blockage of the arteries that supply blood to the brain. It can also result from strokes caused by an interruption of blood flow to the brain. In either case, high blood pressure may be the culprit. In dementia, a person's thinking, speech, vision and movement is affected.
Effects of High Blood Pressure # 7: Sexual dysfunction
High blood pressure can also lead to the inability to maintain and have an erection, though it is common among men who are 50 years and above. High blood pressure damages the lining of your blood vessels and causes your arteries to harden and narrow, this limits the blood flow. This means less blood is able to reach your penis. High blood pressure can reduce blood flow to your vagina, which can further lead to a decrease in sexual desire or arousal, vaginal dryness, or difficulty achieving orgasm.
Effects of High Blood Pressure # 8: Bone less
High blood pressure can increase the amount of calcium that is in your urine. This leads to excessive elimination of calcium through urination. This can further cause bone density loss or osteoporosis.
Low Blood Pressure:
Effects of Low Blood Pressure # 1: Nausea
The most common effect of low blood pressure on the body is nausea. Nausea occurs because the brain doesn't receive enough blood and oxygen due to the low pressure.
Effects of Low Blood Pressure # 2: Fainting
Low blood pressure can also cause fainting. It is caused due to insufficient blood flow and oxygen scarcity in the brain. When blood pressure drops suddenly, people can get seriously injured because they lose conscious unexpectedly.
Effects of Low Blood Pressure # 3: Cardiovascular disease
Low blood pressure may cause many serious cardiovascular diseases like heart attack. Cardiovascular diseases arise because the heart can't pump blood to the organs of the body. This happens because the flow of blood becomes very slow in cases of hypotension.
Effects of Low Blood Pressure # 4: Brain damage
The brain is also seriously affected by the low blood pressure. As the brain can't receive proper quantities of blood and oxygen, the nervous system may experience some complications, like nerve damage, confusion and mental illness.
Effects of Low Blood Pressure # 5: Kidney damage
Low blood pressure can damage the important function of the kidneys, i.e. elimination of the toxins. So, as a result, toxins may build up in the kidneys and cause serious health problems.
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Blood pressure can be of two types; high blood pressure or hypertension and low blood pressure known as hypotension. Nowadays, more and more people are being a victim of either of the above mentioned blood pressure related problems due to stress, lifestyle changes and junk-food addiction. Both high and low blood pressure can be equally dangerous if it is not treated well. So it's time start controlling your blood pressure before it causes any damage to your body and health. Today, we have a detailed plan ready for you to tackle blood pressure with the help of Dr. K.M. Sunesara - General Physician, Mumbai.
High Blood Pressure:
Effects of High Blood Pressure # 1: Artery damage
High blood pressure can damage the cells of your arteries especially the inner linings. Due to high blood pressure, the pressure exerted on the walls make the artery walls thick and stiff. This constant action on the walls of the arteries can lead to a disease called as arteriosclerosis, i.e. hardening of the arteries. This damage can further block the blood flow to your hearts, kidneys, brain, arms and legs, which can lead to many complications.
Effects of High Blood Pressure # 2: Aneurysm
Due to constant high pressure, the arteries of your walls can be weakened. Over time, when the constant pressure of the blood moving through the weak arteries can cause a section of the artery wall to bulge, it is also known as aneurysm. Aneurysm can be life threatening, as it can potentially rupture and can cause internal bleeding.
Effects of High Blood Pressure # 3: Stroke
High blood pressure also increases the risk of occurrence of stroke. Very high pressure can cause a break in a weakened blood vessel which then bleeds in the brain. This can further cause a stroke.
Effects of High Blood Pressure # 4: Eyesight
High blood pressure can cause blood vessels in the eye to burst or bleed. This can give you a blurry vision, which can ultimately lead to total, or partial blindness.
Effects of High Blood Pressure # 5: Heart failure
The strain on your heart caused by high blood pressure can cause your heart muscle to weaken and work less efficiently. Eventually, this will lead your muscular heart to fail.
Effects of High Blood Pressure # 6: Dementia
Vascular dementia can result from narrowing and blockage of the arteries that supply blood to the brain. It can also result from strokes caused by an interruption of blood flow to the brain. In either case, high blood pressure may be the culprit. In dementia, a person's thinking, speech, vision and movement is affected.
Effects of High Blood Pressure # 7: Sexual dysfunction
High blood pressure can also lead to the inability to maintain and have an erection, though it is common among men who are 50 years and above. High blood pressure damages the lining of your blood vessels and causes your arteries to harden and narrow, this limits the blood flow. This means less blood is able to reach your penis. High blood pressure can reduce blood flow to your vagina, which can further lead to a decrease in sexual desire or arousal, vaginal dryness, or difficulty achieving orgasm.
Effects of High Blood Pressure # 8: Bone less
High blood pressure can increase the amount of calcium that is in your urine. This leads to excessive elimination of calcium through urination. This can further cause bone density loss or osteoporosis.
Low Blood Pressure:
Effects of Low Blood Pressure # 1: Nausea
The most common effect of low blood pressure on the body is nausea. Nausea occurs because the brain doesn't receive enough blood and oxygen due to the low pressure.
Effects of Low Blood Pressure # 2: Fainting
Low blood pressure can also cause fainting. It is caused due to insufficient blood flow and oxygen scarcity in the brain. When blood pressure drops suddenly, people can get seriously injured because they lose conscious unexpectedly.
Effects of Low Blood Pressure # 3: Cardiovascular disease
Low blood pressure may cause many serious cardiovascular diseases like heart attack. Cardiovascular diseases arise because the heart can't pump blood to the organs of the body. This happens because the flow of blood becomes very slow in cases of hypotension.
Effects of Low Blood Pressure # 4: Brain damage
The brain is also seriously affected by the low blood pressure. As the brain can't receive proper quantities of blood and oxygen, the nervous system may experience some complications, like nerve damage, confusion and mental illness.
Effects of Low Blood Pressure # 5: Kidney damage
Low blood pressure can damage the important function of the kidneys, i.e. elimination of the toxins. So, as a result, toxins may build up in the kidneys and cause serious health problems.
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Global warming has STALLED since 1998: Met Office
Global warming has STALLED since 1998: Met Office admits Earth's temperature is rising slower than first thought
- Earlier forecasts predicted a much steeper rise in global temperatures
- But latest figures from Met Office show slower rise than previously warned
- Figures raise questions about the true danger posed by greenhouse gasses
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The Met Office has admitted that global warming has stalled.
Officials say that by 2017, temperatures will not have risen significantly for nearly 20 years.
They concede that previous forecasts were inaccurate – and have come under fire for attempting to ‘bury bad news’ by publishing the revised data on Christmas Eve.
Rise: The earlier Met Office predictions show a much sharper rise in projected global temperatures through to 2016...
Fall: But the new computer model predicts temperatures will stay relatively flat
This rise would be only slightly higher than the 0.4-degree rise recorded in 1998, an increase which is itself attributed by forecasters to an exceptional weather phenomenon.
With all but 0.03 degrees of the increase having occurred by 1998, the revision means that no further significant increases to the planet’s temperature are expected over the next few years.
The figures have been seized on by sceptics of man-made climate change, who claim that global warming has flatlined despite a large rise in greenhouse emissions in recent decades.
Dr David Whitehouse, science adviser to the Global Warming Policy Foundation, said: ‘That the global temperature standstill could continue to at least 2017 would mean a 20-year period of no statistically significant change in global temperatures.
‘Such a period of no increase will pose fundamental problems for climate models. If the latest Met Office prediction is correct, then it will prove to be a lesson in humility.’
Crack: Pieces of ice breaking away from a
glacier in Patagonia, southern Argentina. Phenomena like this is
believed by many to be caused by global warming
He was backed by Bob Ward of the London School of Economics, who said it would be wrong to interpret that warming had stopped.
However, he also condemned the Met Office for releasing data without an explanation of its full meaning.
‘It’s true to say this isn’t the Met Office’s finest hour,’ he said.
‘The sceptics have simply exploited that fact. I think on this particular occasion the Met Office has fallen short of the standards one would expect of them.’
Labour MP Graham Stringer said the Met Office’s short-term forecasts had improved, but their climate change analysis was ‘poor’.
He said: ‘By putting out the information on Christmas Eve they were just burying bad news – that they have got their climate change forecast wrong.
‘For a science-based organisation, they should be more up front, both about their successes and failures.’
The Met Office said the updated five-year predictions were a result of a new modelling system, which takes into account changes in ocean surface temperatures, and was released as soon as practically possible.
Evidence: Temperatures will not rise as rapidly as feared, according to Met Office figures
Forecasts of continued global warming are driven largely by increasing levels of greenhouse gases.
Experts warn that without efforts to reduce emissions, the world is on course for dangerous temperature rises in the next century.
Professor Myles Allen of the University of Oxford said: ‘A lot of people were claiming, in the run-up to the Copenhagen 2009 conference, that warming was accelerating and it is all worse than we thought.
‘What has happened since then has demonstrated that it is foolish to extrapolate short-term climate trends.
‘While every new year brings in welcome new data to help us rule out the more extreme scenarios for the future, it would be equally silly to interpret what has happened since the early 2000s as evidence that the warming has stopped.’
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