Blood Pressure and Obsesity ARE Related
Being extremely overweight or obese and having high blood pressure are so closely related that it has even been given its own name: obesity hypertension. Of all the cases of hypertension in the U.S., 75% can be directly attributed to obesity.
Deaths directly from hypertension or that had high blood pressure is a primary contributor totaled 310,707 in the U.S. in 2002. It’s a chain reaction: obesity=hypertension= heart disease=death and that all begins with how fat a person is.
It’s not just how much you are overweight, but also where you carry
your extra weight that can have a great impact on blood pressure.
Risk factors are increased when added weight is in the abdominal
area. This is because people with a so-called spare tire also have
increases in blood sugar, which causes the fat to be deposited there,
and then starts a cycle of sodium and water retention. To
summarize, there is a significant risk factor for developing high
blood pressure if you’re obese.
There’s a direct correlation between obesity and hypertension,
so it makes perfect sense that losing weight can lower blood pressure.
The proof is in the numbers. Blood pressure is measured in mm/hg.
A reading of blood pressure as the heart beats and as it relaxes,
creates the dual number of X over Y giving you your final blood
pressure reading. For every 2.2 pounds of weight lost, blood
pressure falls 1 mm/hg. Of course, this is just one very positive
byproduct of weight loss.
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