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Post by the Scribe on Mar 5, 2022 20:16:48 GMT
Blood Pressure Chart for your AGE👈💥
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Understanding high blood pressure/hypertension (FULL DETAILS)
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 5, 2022 20:29:26 GMT
High Blood pressure: Why we shouldnt worry about the number
2,099,622 views Oct 14, 2018
York Cardiology
308K subscribers
In this video, i try and explain why blood pressures are not as important as a persons general health status. I discuss how 2 people with the same blood pressure numbers can have completely different risks depending on their age and presence of comorbidities. I now have a new website www.yorkcardiology.co.uk and an instagram account YORK CARDIOLOGY
3 questions to ask your doctor if he says you have high blood pressure
1,108,158 views Jul 14, 2019
York Cardiology
308K subscribers
My name is sanjay gupta and I am a consultant in York. Today I wanted to do a little video on the subject of blood pressure.
If there is one thing that causes a tonne of anxiety, it is the mention of high blood pressure. A common scenario for example is that the patient goes to see his doctor for a routine visit or a completely unrelated complaint and the first thing the doctor or the practice nurse will do is measure the patients blood pressure. Then the doctor will shake his head, and say the words ‘your blood pressure is a bit high today’. You had better come back again and in a week and if it is again high we should consider giving you some tablets.
The poor patient is left feeling immediately worried and goes home to consult Dr Google and everywhere he looks there are these horror stories of how high blood pressure can cause strokes and heart attacks and kidney failure. When the poor terrified patient goes back for his repeat blood pressure measurement, he is already so anxious and unsurprisingly his blood pressure measures high which triggers of more anxiety and the prospect of a lifetime on medications.
This video is for that patient and my aim is to help that patient understand and demistyfy the concept of blood pressure by asking the doctor 3 important questions before contemplating medications.
As I see it, there are only 2 reasons, the blood pressure numbers are important:
1) The number is a symptom of something else in which case the aim should be to identify the underlying problem and treat it rather than make the numbers look prettier by giving tablets
2) The number by itself is causing the patient some form of harm in which case it does make sense to reduce the number.
It is also true to say that we are all different and therefore it doesn’t seem logical to use a single set of values to define everyone by saying that anyone with a blood pressure above 140/90 has high blood pressure. Surely what we want to know is whether the blood pressure is high for that individual. So instead of asking “is my blood pressure high?’, What we really want to know is ‘my blood pressure high for me?’
So here are 3 questions you want your doctor to answer for you before you start worrying about your blood pressure
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 5, 2022 20:41:26 GMT
This doctor makes too much sense. Pain killers only take care of the symptoms. Isn't it better to find out the cause? Covering up the symptoms does not get to the root of the problem which might be serious.
How to lower BP by 20 mmHg naturally
416,006 views May 5, 2021
York Cardiology
308K subscribers
High blood pressure is a major global health challenge and one of the main reasons why it has become more prevalent is because increasingly more economically developing countries are adopting the western lifestyle which leads to sedentary behaviour, physical inactivity, consumption of calorie dense fatty foods, high sodium intake and excessive levels of stress.
It is also well recognised that excessively elevated blood pressure numbers can be associated with harm to the body at a microscopic level initially and then over a course of years that damage can start manifesting as strokes, heart attacks and kidney failure and therefore there is great emphasis by healthcare bodies around the world to reduce high blood pressure numbers through lifestyle and medications.
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 5, 2022 20:43:43 GMT
www.youtube.com/channel/UCxtbUzEzRpX1B9sGbRudG6g
York Cardiology
308K subscribers
Having spent almost 28 years in Medicine, i have come to the following conclusions:
I believe that the healthcare industry rarely ever provides healthcare. Instead it provides disease management by using expensive and potentially harmful pills to mask symptoms
Secondly I believe people come to see doctors to be engaged, educated and empowered rather than being given a set of pills before being shown the door.
I think lifestyle management is perhaps the single most effective therapy in medicine and yet largely ignored because it is boring and not as profitable as promoting the newest and often most expensive tablet.
I do believe that high quality reliable jargon-free information about health should be available at no cost to everyone in the world. Unfortunately many people rely on google to answer their questions and are often left confused and anxious because of the unreliability and variability of the quality of information
I think the media, the pharmaceutical industry and often the healthcare industry profit by promoting fear rather tan providing reassurance and empathy
I want to do things differently.
I want to use the power of the internet to provide everyone with a high quality reliable and evidence based resource for medical information.
I want to impart knowledge in an empathic and reassuring manner.
I want to empower patients to take control of their health by addressing their lifestyles and preventing disease from happening in the first instance.
Most of all, i want people to stop being fearful and anxious about their health by getting them to focus on improving their quality of lives and living fearlessly.
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