In 'Doctor's Orders,' writer Karen Hawthorne talks to a medical expert about a health condition. First topic? DrDiegoDelgado shares what you need to know about high blood pressure.— via healthing_ca UHN healthing hearthealth UHN
In the years leading up to her diagnosis, Janet Pieschel experienced other symptoms like light-headedness and excruciating migraines. of Toronto’s University Health Network, who is also a professor of medicine at the University of Toronto. He has treated heart patients for 25 years.It’s a medical condition that affects the body’s arteries. Basically, the walls of the arteries are stiff, so the heart has to pump harder.
When we talk about the impact of hypertension, we talk about stroke, heart disease, heart failure, but patients could also have dementia related to hypertension or eye problems, and then the other one that is important is erectile or sexual dysfunction.We always recommend healthy lifestyle habits, and that includes, of course, cessation of smoking, regular physical exercise, eating well, maintaining a healthy weight or losing weight, reduced alcohol intake as well.
Often when patients who are taking blood pressure medications make these lifestyle modifications, it is not unusual to see that they need less medication or eventually they don’t need any medication in the long-term.We need to be aware that this is a chronic disease that we call a silent killer, so checking the blood pressure regularly is essential. As with any chronic condition, if we don’t detect it and treat it early, it has devastating cardiovascular consequences in the long-term.
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