For every heart beat blood is pumping around your body and into your arteries. Systolic pressure is when your heart is at its greatest pressure during beats, and when the heart is resting and the pressure drops, this is addressed diastolic pressure.
Keeping a healthy blood pressure is highly significant in living a thriving healthy and long life. The danger with hypertension is that it oftentimes goes unheeded for years, and can lead to severe heart problems, heart attack or stroke. Not the sort of event any of us wants to go through, particularly if hypertension can be picked up ahead of time and treated accordingly.
Just recently renowned UK politician Robin Cook collapsed and was pronounced dead on arrival to hospital from having a heart attack immediately related to hypotension. He was only 59; the age we’re people of all society groups should be checking their blood pressure on a regular basis (at least once per year) and looking for treatment if the doctor advises it’s high for your age.
High blood pressure took the lives of over 40 thousands Americans in 2002 only and nearly 1 in 3 adults suffers from hypertension. Alarmingly, since 1992 up to 2002 the deaths from hypertension rose 27% – this is too much. If you’re worried about your own blood pressure I highly advocate you seek your doctor’s advice and possibly take a test or even buy your own blood pressure monitor.