Hypertension Damages

Hypertension Affects Fatal

hypertension affects fatal

Pregnant women with hypertension and excess red blood cells are more likely to have premature births or babies with low birth weight and women who smoke or not to take supplements during pregnancy.

These factors may affect fatal development during the first trimester of pregnancy. Although early ultrasound scans can help identify risk in infants.

However preterm or low birth weight babies tend to develop rapidly after birth, which can cause obesity in these children.

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Primary Hypertension

primary hypertension

The causes of hypertension are varied and depend on what kind of hypertension is concerned. Today we will talk of primary hypertension, which is what they have 80% of people.

In primary hypertension the cause is unknown and there is a specific disease that caused it is believed that there is a genetic component and / or inherited responsibility for it.

This type of hypertension is influenced by different factors interacting with genetic susceptibility to increase blood pressure. Common factors in primary hypertension are:

Hypertension Damages

hypertension damages

The new result opens the door to other preventive strategies

Lacunar strokes are small strokes that occur in deeper brain structures and, generally, they cause no symptoms. Although they may go unnoticed, these disorders do have consequences, and that its development has been associated with cognitive and start of dementia. An Australian research has shown that hypertension is a major risk factor for its appearance, thus opening the door to preventive strategies.

The authors of this paper, published in the journal Neurology, they wanted to analyze the prevalence of such strokes common in elderly people, and the various factors that may contribute to its onset. To do this, followed up for four years to a sample of 477 people aged between 60 and 64 years.

At the beginning of the investigation, and other general medical evaluations, each participant underwent an MRI, an imaging technique that can detect the disorder. At that time, a total of 37 patients, 7.8% of the sample-had little damage to his brain caused by a lacunar stroke.

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