Be careful out there. My hypertension seems to have developed in the last six months, prior to that my tests came in around 130/85 when giving blood. And now I will be seeing a doctor in January for this, my first doctor appt. in 8 years, could see no use seeing a neurologist or PMR doctor. But don't follow anything I do. It ought to be an interesting discussion on how to bring high blood pressure down. We'll see if she knows anything about nitric oxide and ways to provide that; via breathing exercise or foods.
Friends are urging me to get this treated, the 180-195 readings are dangerous, they want me around for a few more years. So do I, I have a lot to accomplish yet before I die.
This is interesting that this risk if for clots(ischemic) not bleeders. So to me that would mean making sure that you don't have
unstable plaque. I'll ask about that.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26556566
Turin TC1,
Okamura T,
Afzal AR,
Rumana N,
Watanabe M,
Higashiyama A,
Nakao Y,
Nakai M,
Takegami M,
Nishimura K,
Kokubo Y,
Okayama A,
Miyamoto Y.
Abstract
BACKGROUND:
The
lifetime risk (LTR) articulates the probability of disease in the
residual lifetime for an index age. These estimates can be useful for
general audience-targeted knowledge translation activities against
hypertension. There are only a few reports on lifetime of impact of
hypertension on stroke events in Asians in whom stroke incidence is
higher than Westerners.
METHODS:
The
Suita Study, a cohort study of cardiovascular diseases in Japan, was
established in 1989. We included all participants who were stroke free
at baseline. Age (in years) was used as the time scale. Age-specific
incidence rates were calculated with person-year method within 10-year
bands. We estimated the sex and index-age specific LTR of first-ever
stroke with taking the competing risk of death into account.
RESULTS:
We
followed 5783 men and women during 1989-2007 for 74 933 person-years.
During the follow-up period, 276 (149 men and 127 women) participants
had incident stroke. Of them, majority were cerebral infarction; 166
(102 men and 64 women). The LTR of stroke, accounted for competing risk
of death, at 45 years of age for men without hypertension was 17.21% and
it was 32.79% for hypertensive men. Among the hypertensive patients,
participants with stage 2 or greater hypertension had higher LTR of
stroke than the participants with stage 1 hypertension. This increased
LTR of stroke for hypertensive patients were also observed among women
and across all index ages for stroke.
CONCLUSION:
In
this urban community-based population, we observed that hypertension
has significant effect on the residual LTR of stroke among both men and
women of middle age, specifically for ischemic stroke.
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