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What is Hypertension?

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

HypertensionWhen your heart beats, it pumps blood into your arteries and creates pressure in ellas.Dicha pressure is getting the blood to circulate throughout the body.

Every time you take the tension given two figures. The first recorded systolic blood pressure (that which occurs in the arteries when the heart beats) and the second, the diastolic pressure (that which is recorded when the heart rests between beats).

If the pressure rises above the normal limit – and could be coded in 140/90 in adults – there is what we call high blood pressure is a very common disease worldwide that affects more than 20 percent of adults between 40 and 65 and nearly 50 percent and those over 65. (more…)

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