How Symptoms of High Blood Pressure Affect Young Generation

Young people Should not miss out the Symptoms of HBP(Bigh Blood pressure) or Hypertension because it may leads to problems.

It is true that at young age you are most likely to miss symptoms of high blood pressure. Even a mild above normal pressure in young age may result in heart problems in later age. A 25 year long study on nearly 2,500 adults aged 18 to 30 was carried out to observe the blood pressure and its effects.

The study did involve checking the participant’s health closely several times during the time period including monitoring their blood pressure.

At the end of research, the participants had heart imaging tests. Some of the participants under the age of 30, in the study had mild above normal blood pressure  (120/80 to 139/89).

Medically this reading comes under pre-hypertension and not enough to be considered as hypertension or high blood pressure.

However the research concluded that even this above normal blood pressure was likely to cause heart related problems in the middle age, particularly problems hearts left ventricle.

How to doctors interpreted high blood pressure reading?

Many years ago, symptoms of high blood pressure (hypertension) used to appear for the patients whose blood pressure readings were 140/90 or higher. However doctors observed through multiple studies that even prolonged blood pressure higher than 120/80 are linked with increased risk of stroke and heart attack.

Doctors termed this stage as prehypertension where the blood pressure is between 140/90 and 120/80. 

The study concluded that prehypertension starts to impact heart function in the initial years period of adult life. These scientists studied at a huge group of adults between 18 to 30 years age. During the next quarter of century years, people with prehypertension found to  develop signs of heart related disease.

Most of participants did not have symptoms of high blood pressure though. However the heart irregularities were observed on echocardiograms.

What the study means to you?

Dietitian in Mumbai suggests checking your blood pressure regularly. No matter if you have 120.80 now. At least once a year till you become 30 and twice or thrice a year after 30s. No two years should go unchecked for blood pressure.

One need not to go to a doctor to check blood pressure. Many corporates run a health checkup drive where in you can check blood pressure. Some insurance companies such as Aegon Religare has one mandatory medical test in one year complementary for the insurer which included blood, ECG, sugar and other tests. This is a must grab opportunity. If you are not insured, don’t worry, many hospitals such as Apollo hospitals run public health drives and you can get your health records checked at such places.  You can also Ttake benefits from any free health checkup in your community.

Even if you are in your twenties and even a single blood pressure reading of yours is higher, you need to take it seriously and act to bring the readings down. It is quite common in young age to have lifestyle habits. 

By making lifestyle changes when you are young, you can cut the risks of increasing the blood pressure along with age. Remember symptoms of high blood pressure are difficult to identify and by taking steps earlier in life you can avert heart problems and stroke in later life.

Dietitian in Mumbai recommends strongly quitting smoking if you are smoking. Your Diet Chart, physical activities and exercise should make efforts to reduce the risk of high blood pressure. Here is the list of things to follow to prevent HBP:

• Get at least 30 minutes of moderate to heavy exercise 5 days a week

• Stay physically active , avoid being idle for more than 30 minutes..

• Go all-out to reduce weight and bring it under acceptable BMI range.

• Go for water instead drinking sugary drinks.

• Avoid / limit alcohol.

• Almost 50 % of your meal should contain fruits and vegetables. Potatoes are not counted as vegetable for the previous statement.

• 25% of your meal should contain healthy and lean protein and other 25% should contain whole-grain carbs.

• Cut salt intake every day. Soon you will enjoy low salt food as you used to enjoy high salt food.

Future with Pre-hypertension

Some young adults with prehypertension could get benefited with salmon omega 3 and anti-oxidant supplements. Dietitian in Mumbai recommends you to generate your diet Kundali  to know the status of your vitamins and minerals in your diet. You can then find out how much you need to change your diet and add supplements.