ALERT: WHY YOU MUST TREAT YOUR HYPERTENSION

Stroke

the remote control of all body parts

High blood pressure causes your arteries to damage or clog more easily, putting you at high risk for a stroke

When a blood vessel in the brain is blocked or damaged, that part of the brain does not get the blood and oxygen it needs. So brain cell or body cell dies as a result of oxygen deprivation if the partial pressure of oxygen falls below normal. This can cause partial paralysis or total paralysis depending on part of the brained involved. This results in loss of ability to control movement and body functions, speak, remember things, or think clearly. This means there is impairment of cognition.

Heart and artery damage

the life machine of every man

High blood pressure can cause microscopic tears in your artery walls. These tears turn into scar tissue. The scar tissue creates rough walls, collecting cholesterol, platelets, fats, and plaque. This narrows and hardens the arteries

Damaged and hardened arteries can limit the amount of blood your organs get, causing them to not work as well as they should

Pieces of the deposits left in the arteries due to scar tissue can break off, causing blood clots that flow through the bloodstream until they get stuck in a small space. This can block the blood supply to part of your heart or brain, causing a heart attack or stroke

The heart has to work harder to pump blood through damaged arteries. This can make it thicker and larger. The damaged heart works less effectively, so the rest of your organs may not get all the blood they need

When the heart doesn't get as much blood as it needs, you could develop angina—uncomfortable pressure, fullness, squeezing, or pain in the center of the chest. People with angina usually feel their symptoms when walking up a hill, climbing stairs, or doing other sorts of physical activity

Narrowing of the arteries to your legs, stomach, arms, and head, called peripheral artery disease (PAD), can cause cramping, pain, or tiredness mostly in the leg and hip muscles. People with PAD also have a much higher risk of heart attack or stroke

Kidney damage

the purifier of the body

Uncontrolled HTN can exert much pressure on the kidney capillaries which can lead to nephropathy. At initial time, HTN can results of hyperfilteration at the glomerulus. This can lead to essential blood electrolyte such as albumin and other proteins being lost in the urine. Damage to kidney is a double damage to the body because the kidney gradually loses it function of osmoregulation i.e regulation of water and salt balance, elimination of waste products of metablosim and secondly the body then loses another Blood pressure control mechanism as damaged kidneys are also unable to help your body regulate its own blood pressure which normal kidneys do.  So uncontrolled HBP can lead to kidney failure

Vision loss

the light of the body

High blood pressure causes much pressure to the delicate blood vessels (capillaries) in the eyes and damages them. This leads to retinopathy or impaired vision.

Glaucoma is an eye disease that is often associated with elevated intraocular pressure, in which damage to the eye (optic) nerve can lead to loss of vision and even blindness if the cause was not properly addressed.

So HBP is the chief risk factor for glaucoma which is the chief cause of permanent blindness in the world.  So lowering your blood pressure will do good in preventing damage to blood vessels in the eye so treating.

Also, brain damage caused by stroke can also lead to permanent vision loss. 

Hypertensive crisis

body organs

This is HBP at the extreme (SBP of 180 or higher /DBP of 110 or higher). The writer here have taken a BP of 216/140 mmHg. It may even be as high as 240/150. This is hypertensive emergency and the patient should be admitted right away because any further negligence may lead to comorbidities and synchronous organ failure within few days.

It may be accompanied by a severe headache, tachycardia, dyspnea or shortness of breath, nosebleed, and/or anxiety disorder.

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