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    1) Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a chronic medical condition where blood pressure is elevated above 140/90. It puts one at risk for cardiovascular diseases like heart attack and stroke. 2) Over a billion people worldwide have hypertension, making it a major global cause of early death. Two-thirds of cases are in low and middle-income countries. 3) While many with hypertension have no symptoms, it can lead to damage of the heart, brain, kidneys, and blood vessels if untreated, increasing the risk of problems like heart failure, stroke, and renal failure. Lifestyle changes like diet, exercise, reducing stress and avoiding smoking and heavy drinking can help prevent and manage hypertension.

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    1) Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a chronic medical condition where blood pressure is elevated above 140/90. It puts one at risk for cardiovascular diseases like heart attack and stroke. 2) Over a billion people worldwide have hypertension, making it a major global cause of early death. Two-thirds of cases are in low and middle-income countries. 3) While many with hypertension have no symptoms, it can lead to damage of the heart, brain, kidneys, and blood vessels if untreated, increasing the risk of problems like heart failure, stroke, and renal failure. Lifestyle changes like diet, exercise, reducing stress and avoiding smoking and heavy drinking can help prevent and manage hypertension.

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    Hypertension

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    Divine Rose Tuquib
    1) Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a chronic medical condition where blood pressure is elevated above 140/90. It puts one at risk for cardiovascular diseases like heart attack and stroke. 2) Over a billion people worldwide have hypertension, making it a major global cause of early death. Two-thirds of cases are in low and middle-income countries. 3) While many with hypertension have no symptoms, it can lead to damage of the heart, brain, kidneys, and blood vessels if untreated, increasing the risk of problems like heart failure, stroke, and renal failure. Lifestyle changes like diet, exercise, reducing stress and avoiding smoking and heavy drinking can help prevent and manage hypertension.

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    Name: Divine Rose R.

    Tuquib May 09, 2023


    BSN 3 – A
    Reflection

    Our lifestyle should include a commitment to good health. A healthy lifestyle can aid
    in the prevention of chronic diseases and debilitating conditions. Our self-esteem and self-
    image depend on how we feel about ourselves and how we will take care of our physical
    and mental well-being. Adopting a healthy lifestyle by taking care of our
    bodies. Hypertension is one of the chronic medical health conditions where blood pressure
    is increased. It states that hypertension is diagnosed when the systolic blood pressure is 140
    or higher and the diastolic blood pressure is 90 or higher. It is one of the chronic medical
    illnesses that could give us cardiovascular diseases. This condition is brought on by the heart
    having to work harder and faster due to excessive blood pressure. Heart attack and other
    cardiovascular health issues are primarily brought on by hypertension. Additionally,
    drinking, smoking, high salt diets, and lack of physical activity/exercise are all risk factors. It
    may result in elevated blood pressure. 
     
    Over a billion individuals, or about 1 in 4 men and 1 in 5 women, are thought to have
    the illness, making it a significant cause of early death globally. Two-thirds of instances of
    hypertension are found in low- and middle-income nations, which bear a disproportionate
    burden of the disease in large part because of recent increases in risk factors in those
    populations. Many persons who have hypertension do not have symptoms and can be
    ignorant that they have a condition. Early morning headaches, nosebleeds, abnormal
    heartbeats, vision changes, and ear buzzing are just a few symptoms. In more severe cases,
    symptoms like exhaustion, nausea, vomiting, confusion, anxiety, chest pain, and trembling
    may also appear. If untreated, hypertension can result in heart attacks, heart failure,
    irregular heartbeats, and chronic chest discomfort (commonly known as angina), all of
    which increase the risk of premature death.  
     
    By narrowing or rupturing the arteries that carry blood and oxygen to the brain,
    hypertension can also result in strokes. It can also harm the kidneys, which can result in
    renal failure. By hardening arteries and reducing the flow of blood and oxygen to the heart,
    high blood pressure harms the heart. Moreover, Reducing and controlling mental stress,
    frequently monitoring blood pressure, we should seek medical advice in treating high blood
    pressure, and managing other medical disorders are all ways to manage hypertension.
    Changing our lifestyle is one of the improvements in diet and exercise, quitting smoking, and
    refraining from drinking alcohol can all help lessen the signs and risks of hypertension.
    Taking care of one self is a big factor to have good and longest life to live.

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