Tackle High Blood Pressure and Stop Smoking in Stoptober!
We all realise that high blood pressure is a major problem and a health risk if prolonged.
In this month of October (stoptober) when you may be thinking of quitting the smoking habit for good here is a chance to really help your blood pressure too.
But there are some very serious issues associated with smoking and high blood pressure and it is worth taking a look at the facts particularly for women.
Women who smoke and also have high blood pressure levels are twenty times more liable to experience a brain haemorrhage compared to non-smoking men that have normal blood pressure, according to a recent study.
A bleed in the brain is often caused by a ruptured aneurysm, that is a blood-filled balloon-like pouch in the wall of a blood vessel, although some do not ever rupture. Currently medical doctors aren't able to tell which ones will.
By far the most frequent trigger of a haemorrhage is a burst aneurysm. With the way things stand right at this moment doctors are by and large struggling to state in advance which of them will and which won't.
But now valuable study could possibly help medical practitioners identify which patients are liable to experience a rupture of their aneurysm and those that require attention to prevent a haemorrhage.
The study by Helsinki University Central Hospital and Australian School of Advanced Medicine shows that the possibility of a haemorrhage may differ tremendously based on specific risk elements, like gender, smoking and blood pressure levels.
The study demonstrates that female tobacco smokers and individuals with high blood pressure levels are definitely the most likely to see their aneurysm rupture.
The study is the largest ever undertaken into brain haemorrhage risks.
Furthermore, it determined three different risk factors:
- Previous heart attack
- A history of stroke in a person's mother
- Higher cholesterol in men
In the past it had been shown that lifestyle factors influence the life span of brain haemorrhage survivors. But it has now also been established that they also affect the risk of the haemorrhage occurring in the first place.
Earlier scientific studies have established that individuals with type 1 diabetes have an unusually high risk of brain haemorrhages which are not brought on by burst aneurysms.
Brain haemorrhages are fatal in 40 to 50 per cent of cases.
When the aneurysm is found before it ruptures, it is usually taken care of to stop a haemorrhage.
We hope that our studies truly help doctors and patients, and are not only of interest around coffee tables on university campuses, says neurosurgeon Professor Miikka Korja, at Macquarie University Hospital, Sydney.
Hypnotherapy is especially valuable to individuals within the high risk category because it is successful in working with both cigarette smoking and elevated blood pressure levels.
A hypnotic approach helps individuals to decrease elevated blood pressure levels by the use of the Hypnotension method, developed especially to tackle the lifestyle aspects, for example smoking, weight, drinking, salt consumption and stress. Any of these are just some of the lifestyle aspects which are recognised to bring on and maintain hypertension.
If you experience either hypertension and/or smoke, get in touch with me and I'll be very happy help you with both. I have expertise in helping clients to lower their high blood pressure levels and also aiding clients to just stop smoking with the award winning easy quit smoking therapy.