Proposal Paper: High Blood Pressure

Proposal Paper: High Blood Pressure

Introduction

Hypertension happens typically when the pumping of blood by the body vessels becomes strained due to larger volumes of blood needed to be transported to various body parts but in a minimal amount of time. This is because the measurements of blood pressure show how much blood is being transported through the blood vessels and how strenuous it is for the blood to be pumped by the heart.

Arteries that are so small leads to the resistance that the blood is being pumped to increase. Thus, the narrower the vessels are, the higher the blood pressure becomes. As per the studies conducted by scientists for some time, High Blood Pressure can indeed result in other diseases associated with the blood flow and the kind of pressure exerted by the blood to them, for example, Heart Attack, Brain Damage and many others.

The treatment of Hypertension can be done in several ways, for example, taking medication and leading a healthy life. And in most cases, if the treatment methods don’t apply, it can lead to stroke and many other Hypertension associated diseases.

From the data, I have tried to collect in my community, environment or living a life which is unhealthy like lack of doing important body activities and having a diet which is inferior leads to High Blood Pressure. This is because the environment one lives in can lead to a change in weight of the body, which can be an overweight or obese or extreme loss of weight, thus causing high blood pressure.

Hypertension is known to be one of the silent diseases to reveal its symptoms and thus, a long time can pass before the condition becoming so dangerous. The symptoms can, therefore, be as follows: feeling of pain in the head, shortness of breath, nose bleeding, flushing, dizziness, chest pain, visual changes and maybe the presence of blood in the urine.

The symptoms typically need an immediate checkup simply because they don’t occur in every person with high blood pressure, thus waiting for a sign of this condition to appear could be deadly.

Preferred solutions to the problem

The cause of the Hypertension that I have identified in our community, which is the environment has had preliminary answers to reduce its intention on the body of the affected to reduce the causes of death in the city. The following are some of the methods;

1. Developing a healthy diet

The development of a healthy diet is merely ensuring that the kind of food taken has a balanced diet. This is because the menu has to be in balance to provide all the body parts that aid in the blood flow within the body of a person who has that power to withstand the work. The following are some of the foods that ensure body diet is at equilibrium; Fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins like fish and many others

1. b) Increasing physical activity

Physical activities involve; walking instead of driving, using stares while moving up a storey building, doing household chores, doing cultivating or harvesting jobs, playing games that physically active and drains energy from the body, going for a ride and many others.

When all these activities are done regularly for like at least an hour each day will be a suitable and one of the best methods that make the body to be physically fit and resistant to some diseases like Hypertension.

1. Reaching a healthy weight

Bodyweight should be reasonable to reduce the chances of being obese, and this can be achieved by doing physical activities and balancing the diet. Other ways to ensure the pressure is healthy can be; managing stress may be through meditation, having deep breathing, muscle relaxation and doing yoga, adopting a cleaner lifestyle by avoiding cigarettes and others.

Proposed solutions which I argue with

It is usually a recommendation for people to go for a medical checkup, which is conducted in a trial and error phase where blood is taken for testing. Those people having Hypertension after a test are tried out by different medicines until when medicines that accompany their medications works. This is found to be so erroneous because all these periods of testing could be time-consuming and hence makes Hypertension grow and become severe to the patient, which means the patient is prone to maybe death or lack of the required medication after that period. Also, the process can lead to a waste of resources by the patient or the families of the patients.

The following are the tests; testing on urine, cholesterol screening and other types of blood tests, tests of heart’s electrical activity with an electrocardiogram, the test on the ultrasound of the heart and kidney and many others involved.

Conclusion

In conclusion, High Blood Pressure, which is also called Hypertension is a strain exerted on the blood vessels and other organs by the blood pressure. We have seen that it can lead to various diseases like heart attack, Brain damage, Kidney failure and many other associated body organs malfunctioning.

Also, we have looked at the solutions that I recommend are as important and crucial as they are homemade activities. Therefore, they should be adhered to or given preference over the other medical testing because of their costs in terms of time and resources.

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