Is Your Weight Putting You at Risk for Hypertension
Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Samuel Baron asked:
It is important to try to stay at the ideal weight for your height, age and gender. If you are as little as even just 10% over your optimum weight, you move into a high risk category for hypertension and other blood pressure related heart conditions.
Over 50% of all Americans are classed as being obese. Charities and research groups like the American Heart Association have been trying to find effective ways to reduce this figure. The figures are definitely at a record high, and they are increasing with every year that goes by.
Obesity hypertension is the biggest and most common form of high blood pressure, almost as much as 75% of all U.S. hypertension cases. In 2002 around 310,707 people died as a direct result from obesity hypertension. Most high blood pressure and heart diseases begin with obesity, then lead onto high blood pressure, then move swiftly to severe heart disease and finally resulting in a painful death.
As far as obesity and obesity hypertension is concerned, it does not matter about your family history, age, gender, race or sex. Men and women are affected in the same way and at the same sort of stages in life. Obviously if you keep an eye on your weight, it will result in a reduction of the risks of hypertension. Alternatively, if you stay at a high weight, the risks will carry on increasing.
How do I Know if I am Obese?
The first question to ask should more accurately be asked as “Am I overweight?” Obesity does not just concern how fat you look or just how much you weigh. It mainly refers to your Body Mass Index (BMI). This Index measures the contrast between your weight AND height. A BMI above 30.0 is usually seen as dangerously obese, a score between 25.0 and 29.9 is thought to be overweight, but the optimum BMI score is around 18.5 and 24.9.
If you wish to calculate your own Body Mass Index, take your current weight and divide it by the number you get when you multiply your height in inches by your height in inches again. Then multiply that number by 703 for your BMI. For example, if you are 5′6″ and weigh 165lbs, you would multiply 66″ times 66″ for a total of 4356, then divide 165 by 4356 for a total of 0.0378. Next multiply that by 703 for a BMI equal to 26.6, which may not be life threatening, but is still seen as overweight.
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It is important to try to stay at the ideal weight for your height, age and gender. If you are as little as even just 10% over your optimum weight, you move into a high risk category for hypertension and other blood pressure related heart conditions.
Over 50% of all Americans are classed as being obese. Charities and research groups like the American Heart Association have been trying to find effective ways to reduce this figure. The figures are definitely at a record high, and they are increasing with every year that goes by.
Obesity hypertension is the biggest and most common form of high blood pressure, almost as much as 75% of all U.S. hypertension cases. In 2002 around 310,707 people died as a direct result from obesity hypertension. Most high blood pressure and heart diseases begin with obesity, then lead onto high blood pressure, then move swiftly to severe heart disease and finally resulting in a painful death.
As far as obesity and obesity hypertension is concerned, it does not matter about your family history, age, gender, race or sex. Men and women are affected in the same way and at the same sort of stages in life. Obviously if you keep an eye on your weight, it will result in a reduction of the risks of hypertension. Alternatively, if you stay at a high weight, the risks will carry on increasing.
How do I Know if I am Obese?
The first question to ask should more accurately be asked as “Am I overweight?” Obesity does not just concern how fat you look or just how much you weigh. It mainly refers to your Body Mass Index (BMI). This Index measures the contrast between your weight AND height. A BMI above 30.0 is usually seen as dangerously obese, a score between 25.0 and 29.9 is thought to be overweight, but the optimum BMI score is around 18.5 and 24.9.
If you wish to calculate your own Body Mass Index, take your current weight and divide it by the number you get when you multiply your height in inches by your height in inches again. Then multiply that number by 703 for your BMI. For example, if you are 5′6″ and weigh 165lbs, you would multiply 66″ times 66″ for a total of 4356, then divide 165 by 4356 for a total of 0.0378. Next multiply that by 703 for a BMI equal to 26.6, which may not be life threatening, but is still seen as overweight.
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