| High blood pressure or hypertension is one of the life | | | | the level the first sound is heard and the diastolic |
| long diseases that most people fear most, simply | | | | value is measured on the level the last sound is heard. |
| because of its silent killing factor that may attack | | | | This should be done regularly until such time the |
| anyone at anytime it wants. When a person suspects | | | | doctor finally arrives at a diagnosis of high BP. |
| that he is suffering from high blood pressure, he | | | | Diagnosis of hypertension may also depend on other |
| should immediately go to the doctor. However, the | | | | factors such as other symptoms. A patient could |
| diagnosis of high blood pressure doesn't only rely in | | | | have other types of disease that may result to the |
| one reading. | | | | development of high BP. Considered as one of the |
| There are different factors that may affect the | | | | major risks for hypertension or high blood pressure, |
| blood pressure to rise. In some cases, being | | | | family history should also be known. The use of |
| surprised, feeling happy, seeing the doctor, stress, | | | | certain equipments such as electrocardiogram or |
| adrenaline rise and many other factors may all | | | | heart ultrasound may also be used to diagnose high |
| contribute to the rising level of BP. Thus, doctors | | | | blood pressure. |
| advise their patients to regularly have medical | | | | The symptoms of high BP or hypertension are very |
| check-up. | | | | easy to determine. Because of this, diagnosis of high |
| The most precise way for the diagnosis of | | | | BP will never be too hard to perform. First thing that |
| hypertension is through blood pressure measurement. | | | | you should do is do your own diagnosis by checking |
| Putting a catheter or a small tube directly into an | | | | yourself if you have the symptoms and signs of |
| artery is the most accurate way to arrive at the | | | | hypertension. If you think you have these |
| most accurate measurement. A simpler method can | | | | symptoms, go to your doctor immediately, have you |
| also be applied such as the using and inflating a cuff | | | | doctor diagnose your condition, evaluate its stage |
| placed around the upper arm. When the cuff is filled | | | | and undergo some treatments. Once you are |
| with enough air, it will be slowly released. The doctor | | | | diagnosed with high blood pressure, be open to |
| or nurse will then hear a sound as the blood flows | | | | treatment options, cooperate with your doctor and |
| again in the arm. The systolic value is determined on | | | | have a strict health discipline. |