what is high blod pressure?how does it affect the body?
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High blood pressure is blood pressure above what is "appropriate" for the body.  Right now, for most folks, that's taken as being 135/87 or less; for some groups, you want it 120/70.\n\nThere are many effects; the heart is damaged, both by having to adapt to the excess load caused by pumping harder and by there not being enough blood-flow on occasion to power the increased work; the kidneys are damaged by having to adapt to the higher pressures (as well as by damage directly from the pressure); strokes can happen, too.\n\nI'm running off memory, here, so I'm sure others will list things that I have forgotten...
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The pressure in their vessels is high already.  If you add excess salt to your diet your body tries to reach a hemostatic equilibrium by retaining water.  Eventually too much water is kept in the vessels, the pressure increases more and a vessel somewhere bursts.  The most damaging areas are in the brain (causes a stroke and increased intercranial pressure), lungs (causes pneumonia), and the heart (causes heart failure).
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salt causes the body to hold water,causing high blood pressure,which predisposes to  the woman and child to a serious condition called eclampsia
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you could have high blood pressure see your doctor
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High blood pressure.\nBack problems.
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First question is what is the cause? \n\nIt may be too much soda. Or you could have a problem food causing it. Lactose intolerance from milk is a common one.\n\nFor many people, too much salt will cause serious bloating. The second link discusses this type of bloating.\n\nThe first link I've given has information about some of the common food causes of bloating. If none of these is the cause, you need to see your doctor.
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sodium and water act together in the vascular system.  "Water follows salt"  So, too much sodium causes water retention, thus increasing the blood pressure.  Obviously high blood pressure affects the heart, and can cause aneurysms, not only in the brain, but in the aorta as well.  Too much pressure causes a weakening in the vessel wall and can cause an outpouching (aneurysm).  If blood pressure isn't controlled then the aneurysm can burst - fatal if not caught by doctors early.
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Your body will accumulate water in order to dilute the excess salts you have taken.  This added volume of liquid in the blood stream is what increase blood pressure.  High blood pressure will then bring on all sorts of health problems from headaches to heart failure including brain damage, anuerisms, kidney failure as well as damage to other organs.\n\nCheck this out..\n\nhttp://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=3846
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If your doctor actually said that the walls of your heart were thickening,he is talking about heart enlargement,maybe to the point that the heart,a muscle,is having troubles opening and closing(also called pumping) and pushing  blood through it's four chambers to circulate oxygen-enriched blood throughout the body. This is commonly referred to as heart failure.If your doctor said there was thickening in the arteries,this means that the major arteries are clogging up with fatty placque which also impedes the circulation of the blood throughout the body;it can also lead to a heart attack or stroke.Go to the website for The American Heart Association and the site mywebmd.com for more clarification.
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Pretty high especially if the blod clots lodge again in the heart or the brain.
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YOu might get a little bloated if you don't sweat it out. That stuff has a high sodium content.
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Blood pressure is a measurement of the force applied to the walls of the arteries as the heart pumps blood through the body. The pressure is determined by the force and amount of blood pumped, and the size and flexibility of the arteries.\nBlood pressure is continually changing depending on activity, temperature, diet, emotional state, posture, physical state, and medication use. I imagine you are referring to high blood pressure.  High blood pressure often has no signs or symptoms. The only way to find out if you have high blood pressure is to be tested for it.
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A lot of questions. First cigarette smoke contains nicotine and Carbon monoxide and tear and further for the body toxic ingredients, which have following effect. Nicotine increases the vascular tension of small arteries, which causes the bloodpressure to rise. There may ba also a transient increase in respiratory rate through a centrally stimulating effect. If a patient has a rapid respiratory rate, it can be caused by insufficient gas exchange through in the lung. The effectiveness of the lungs gas exchange gets worse, through longterm smoking exposure. tear and toxic ingredients seize the function of the microvilli, which are little mobile hairlike formations on the surface of bronchial cells. Their job is to transport little foreign bodies and mucus etc. out of the lung. Small areas of the lung are being plugged up and are getting inflamed. The person developes chronic bronchitis with a decrease of normally functioning lung tissue. Also Atelectasis may develop. \nThere are many reasons, why bloddpressure rises. Smoking is one of them, often it is not clear if smoking or other causes i.e. genetic predeterminatiion are contributing to high blood pressure.\nSecond the blood pressure measured is the pressure created by the left heart. If right heart pressure rises, that means thge left heart is unable to transport enough blood away form the right heart outflow, which can cause eventually pulmonary hypertension or high bloodpressure in the pulmonary arteries (the one going away from the right heart). That happens, when the left heart does not work right.\nFor smokers the blood pressure is normally only high in the left heart outflow system.\nPlasma flow is widely independent from blood systolic  pressure alone. To assess plasma flow, the osmotic venous pressures also need to be known.\nThe body usually tries to maintain homeostasis.\nThat means acutely (when the bloodpressure goes up suddenly) ANP counteracts that development and ANP goes up. Chronically elevated BP would probably not change the ANP Level. Accordingly with Aldosterone. That means the Aldosterone level would go down with sudden elevated BP
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Higher partial pressure of O2 in atmosphere that that present in the blood.\n\nRemember, blood in the lungs will be DEOXYGENATED!
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It could just simply be the fact you are nervous. Being nervous elevates your blood pressure. It is something they check when you do a lie detector test. There really shouldn't be any reason why it is so high. You could take one of the St. Johns aspirin everyday. It has a special coated aspirin so you will not hurt your stomach. It is like 8.1 grams or so. Besides to determine high blood pressure you would have to have a consistently high reading over an extended period of time (which is determined by your doctor).
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Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) is the most common problem, where the heart no longer can "squeeze" blood out of the left ventricle with the same efficiency as a healthy heart.  This leads to weaker blood flow to the end organs, and back up of blood flow through the heart, and subsequently, the lungs (causing pulmonary edema), the liver, and the extremities (causing peripheral edema).  \n\nPeople with diseased left ventricles are also at higher risk of:\n\n1. Rupture of the papillary muscles (which are attached to the leaflets of the mitral valve by the cordae tendinae), leading to mitral valve prolapse (and regurgitation).  \n\n2. Ventricular arrhythmias and conduction abnormalities.\n\n3. In worst case scenarios, the myocardial wall may rupture, leading to cardiac tamponade, and if untreated, death.
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Could be increased bp, or a sinus infection.