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Q: B.M.I. and Hypertension
asked by: ben84 on November 12th, 2008
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i have posted once before about my high blood pressure and chest pains as i said before my bp is on average 165 over 120 i am overweight and did eat all the wrong food s(which i am now trying to change) my bmi is 30.2 would this alone be a big enough reason to have bp that high or is it still more likely something else is going on to cause it to be this high? its never been high before now and used to be normal as little as 8 months ago.
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MandMs
replied on November 12th, 2008
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According to your BMI you belong to category of obese people.
There are some clinical studies that have concluded that people with higher BMI and people that have changed their BMI over time, are significantly associated with increased systolic and diastolic blood pressure.
Approximately 75 and 65 percent of the cases of hypertension in men and women, respectively, are directly attributable to an overweight condition and obesity.
Even moderate weight gain is associated with an increased risk of developing hypertension.
However, there is considerable inter-individual variability in the blood pressure response to weight gain and not all obese individuals become hypertensive (genetic factors).
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