Hypertension, most commonly referred to as "high blood pressure", HTN or HPN, is a medical condition in which the blood pressure is chronically elevated. It was previously referred to as arterial hypertension, but in current usage, the word "hypertension" without a qualifier normally refers to arterial hypertension.
2009-10-05

High Blood Pressure and Smoking - New Study Shows Puffers Likely to Die 10 Years Before Non Smokers

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A new comprehensive, nearly 40 year U.K. study on high blood pressure and life expectancy determined that middle aged smokers with high blood pressure are shaving a decade off their life. The study which began with over 19,000 subjects in 1967, followed their lives, and deaths and focused on three major risk factors, smoking, elevated blood pressure and high cholesterol count.

However, when the researchers broadened their search of risk factors to include obesity, diabetes and income earnings, they discovered that the subjects with the fewest risk factors, outlived those with the most risks by 15 years!
Fifteen years is an awful long time to give up just because of an unhealthy lifestyle. If health doesn't motivate you look at it this way. How much Social Security income do you forfeit by croaking 15 years early!

The study also demonstrated that it is never too late to take control of your health. Those that quit smoking or lost weight or made the changes in lifestyle necessary to control blood pressure had fewer incidents of heart disease and outlived those that did not change their habits. Even minor differences in pressure can have extreme impact on life expectancy.

So now there is a very stark illustration of the impact of high blood pressure on how long you can expect to be on this planet. Will it do anything to motivate the nearly 15 million people who know they have HBP but chose to let it go untreated? Maybe, but probably not.

Smoking is a really difficult habit to break. But even if you can't resist the weed you can still eat a healthy diet and set aside some time each day for exercise. If this study proved anything it is that small differences in pressure can have dramatic impact. If you can drop your blood pressure reading by 10 points, odds are you'll be around longer than if you do nothing.



Autor: Rachel Willson

I can't tell you how many hours I've spent combing the internet, watching videos and reading reports about high blood pressure treatment. But that's what I do and it's why I'm the top author in the Hypertension category.

I can tell you if you can avoid drugs, do so.

Of course I'm biased as I believe that nature can provide miraculous healing powers and that "let your food be your medicine and medicine be your food" sums up most natural approaches.

That said, I've purchased and read a number of Natural Cure reports and have used parts of them in my articles. If you want to take a short cut and get all the information you need about your high blood pressure treatment then I highly recommend Craig Anderson's High Blood Pressure Remedy Report. Craig by the way writes for Joe Barton the number 2 author in Hypertension category.

You can get a copy of the report at http://mynaturalcures.info


Added: October 5, 2009
Source: http://ezinearticles.com/

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