Because hypertension is often a silent condition,it can cause damage to your body for years before symptoms become obvious.if hypertension isn't treated,you may face serious,even fatal complication.
Complications of hypertension include the following:
Healthy arteries are flexible and strong. Blood flows freely and unobstructed through healthy arteries and vessels.
Hypertension makes arteries tougher,tighter and less elastic. This damage makes it easier for dietary fats to deposit in your arteries and restrict blood flow. This damage can lead to increased blood pressure,blockages,and eventually ,heart attack and stroke.
Hypertension makes your heart work too hard.The increased pressure in your blood vessels forces your heart's muscles to pump more frequently and with more force than a healthy heart should have to.
This may cause an enlarged heart. An enlarged heart increases your risk for the following:
1. Heart failure.
2. Arrhythmias.
3. Sudden cardiac death.
4. Heart attack.
Your brain relies on a healthy supply of oxygen rich blood to work properly.High blood pressure can reduce your brain's supply of blood.
Temporary blockages of blood flow to the brain are called transient Ischemic attacks (TIAs).
Significant blockages of blood flow cause brain cells to die. This is as a stroke.
Uncontrolled hypertension may also affect your memory and ability to learn,recall,speak and reason. Treating hypertension often doesn't erase or reverse the effects of uncontrolled hypertension.it does, however , lower the risk if future problems.
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