Taking a Look at Arterial Hypertension - 1401 Words

Hypertension Arterial hypertension, symptons, consequences and prevention. Christye Candell Hypertension Arterial hypertension increases in a chronic way the arterial pressure. This disease will not show symptoms during a long period of time, hypertension is also known as the silence disease. If hypertension is not treated, it can develop serious complications like heart attacks, cerebral thrombosis or hemorrhage but this can be prevented if it’s controlled adequately on time. Arteries are the first one to suffer the consequences of hypertension; these harden while the high blood pressure happens continuously, it gets thicker and more difficult for the blood to get trough; this is known as Atherosclerosis. Arterial tension has two components; these are systolic and diastolic. Both of these are represented in a ratio where systolic is the high numbers and diastolic is the lower number. 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