High blood pressure and hypertension is a serious health condition among both men and women. Strokes, coronary disease and other similar life-threatening disease are commonly linked and caused by high blood pressure.
Aside from those above, high blood pressure can also damage your eyes. It is called the hypertensive retinopathy, hypertension to the blood vessels in our eyes are just as damaging as other blood vessels found within your body.
The effects are swelling, blurred vision and in the most extreme cases, it can cause you to go blind because hypertensive retinopathy can cause leakages in the blood vessels of your eyes.
This is especially pressing for those who are diabetics, because the possibility of developing diabetic retinopathy is even higher when both conditions are presented together. According to professionals in the medical field, nearly half the people with diabetes will at some point develop diabetic retinopathy. It starts off with mild vision but can quickly escalate to loss of sight.
Since early detection can provide the much needed time and buffer to treat diabetic retinopathy, patients with diabetics are advised to do their medical check up regularly. On top of that, they’ll also have to keep their blood sugar levels, cholesterols and blood pressure low to help prevention of the disease.
Damage to the blood vessels in your eyes are great when you have high blood pressure, one way doctors examine if there is a leakage of blood vessels and damage to the retina is to rate it by grade. A grade one means there are no sufficient findings in the blood vessels to suggest any leakage, while on a grade four they can subsequently conclude that retinopathy is present. The diagnosis is based on the swelling of macula and the optic nerves, which is the swelling that can degrade your vision.
Hypertension and high blood pressure are highly dangerous, and dub the name silent killer in our world today. Frequent check up, exercises and nutrition are detrimental to your health; therefore you should always keep your body and mind in an excellent state.
Start becoming aware of any form of variation to your vision because most people are just not careful enough when it comes to their own health!
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