High Blood Pressure
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Dr Mark Porter discusses High Blood Pressure , a silent threat that isn’t well managed, with only a third of those affected being diagnosed and treated as advised in the latest guidelines. Dr Margaret McCartney and Professor of Medicine, Bryan Williams help unpick areas of confusion including lifestyle and treatment with the latest thinking in the UK, on who should be offered what and when.
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| 0:41.4 | Hello, we'll be here every week for the next three months, and we start with a special |
| 0:45.7 | program dedicated, unusually for us, to just one topic, high blood pressure. But why? Well, |
| 0:52.4 | it's known as the silent killer for good reason being the |
| 0:56.0 | single biggest risk factor for an early heart attack or stroke, and it's common, affecting around |
| 1:02.5 | 12 million adults in the UK, half of whom are undiagnosed and blissfully unaware that they have a |
| 1:08.6 | problem. And it's a threat that isn't well managed, |
| 1:12.4 | with only a third of those affected being diagnosed and treated |
| 1:15.7 | as advised in the latest guidelines. |
| 1:18.8 | And what do the readings actually mean? |
| 1:21.3 | 120 over 80 is widely regarded as a healthy level. |
| 1:25.1 | The lower diastolic figure being the baseline pressure in the |
| 1:28.4 | circulation and the higher systolic one, the peak reached each time the heart beats. But how high |
| 1:35.1 | do the numbers have to rise to become unhealthy? And what should be done about it? Even that's not |
| 1:41.9 | straightforward. My name is Franz Messily. I am Professor of Cardiology here in Bern, Switzerland at the |
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