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Obesity and Hypertension

Lori Boxer
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Hypertension (also referred to as high blood pressure) is when your blood goes through your vessels with a force greater than normal. The pressure from this force strains your heart and injures your arteries.
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Most or the time there are no obvious symptoms. When left untreated, the damage that high blood pressure does to your circulatory system is a significant contributing factor to heart attack, stroke and other health threats.
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And extra fat makes your circulatory system work overtime. Why?
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Every pound of weight we put on is 5 miles of blood vessels! If your heart beats 100,000 times a day, that’s 500,000 miles a day for one pound of fat. So you do the math. If you’re 10 pounds overweight, it’s a lot, and your heart gets tired. Your blood pressure goes up. The heart attack rates go up, etc.
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The origin of high blood pressure is almost always related to substances produced by visceral fat tissue (as compared to other fat depots, including subcutaneous and lower body fat) and to the increase in the hormone insulin that occurs with obesity.
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According to updated 2023 stats from the American Heart Association, an estimated 122.4 million adults (20 years of age and older) have high blood pressure (62.8 million males and 59.6 million females).
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What a sorry stat that is, eh?