Wellness Tip:Healthy Body: Bad blood pressure can affect whole body - Health & Fitness - Modbee.com

Bee Healthy: Bad blood pressure can affect whole body - Health & Fitness - Modbee.com: "The standard numbers for a normal blood pressure are 120/80 or less. You have hypertension if the systolic (top) number is 140 or greater or if the diastolic (bottom) number is 90 or greater.
Why is it important to keep your blood pressure well controlled? Because an elevated blood pressure also affects all of the organs in our body.
The heart becomes enlarged and 'stiff' when it has to work too hard to push the blood out to perfuse the organs. This results in a form of heart disease called diastolic (filling) dysfunction, which causes blood to backflow to the lungs instead of effectively pumping blood out to our body, and we can again experience fatigue and shortness of breath with exertion.
The organs — from our head to our toes and including the skin — are all affected by high blood pressure. It increases our risk for stroke, heart attack and peripheral artery disease. It affects our kidney function by 'pounding' away at our kidney filters, leading to poor kidney function."