the diagnosis of high blood pressure is one of the easiest ones that we health
care providers and even patients themselves can make
because using uh... spiegelman armature uh... or blood pressure machine al you
can be easily jack blood pressure
we don't make a diagnosis of both of hypertension based on a single reading
we really uh... they're they're a lot of reasons and the official diagnosis i
have high blood pressure is is typically with averaged readings over a period
uh... ten or fifteen minutes for several readings over
uh... a period of a few weeks
in order to know what your blood pressure is you have to check it
and this can be done in a firehouse at your doctor nurse's office and pretty
much should be started
in childhood
current pediatric guidelines for screening for high blood pressure and
have uh... are pediatricians checking children's blood pressure
uh... starting at a program dates to defy
uh... this is in part because the wrice um... and the obesity epidemic among
children has increased the prevalence of high blood pressure in children as well
in the vast majority of individuals who are diagnosed with hypertension or high
blood pressure we don't find a specific costas but we often do you find respect
urs
receptors for high blood pressure are prevalent and a western society but
because of the diet in activity and the genetics
as so a lot of things we don't have to look at a lot harder
but there are individuals and groups who are at increased risk
age is clearly an increased risk for developing high blood pressure
african-americans and several other uh... race ethnicity is having increase
risk of developing high blood pressure
the use of alcohol increases blood pressure a bold acute use of alcohol but
also during the uh... withdrawal period and chronic use of alcohol more than two
or three drinks per day
is a risk
for elevated blood pressure
pregnancy uh... war hypertensive pregnancy in the past can increase
uh... the risk of
of uh... developing high blood pressure
obesity
and family history uh... are very strong predictors so uh... even to the point
out of uh... if somebody ds family everybody in their family had developed
high blood pressure in the early forties which tends to be that would be a bit
younger uh... we wouldn't raise an eyebrow too much it then uh... another
member that family did
where somebody could never have high blood pressure in their family remind
investigate it further
other potentially reversible causes of
high blood pressure uh... are diseases of the kidney
uh... that uh... sometimes the blood supply to the kidney
work it chronic kidney disease which may be treatable
could be a cause of high blood pressure
there are certain uh... tumors that secrete hormones something the adrenal
gland one quote feel chroma saitama
that can out cause severe elevations of blood pressure we take that benign tumor
out
uh... people's blood pressure returns to normal