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High Blood Pressure

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High Blood Pressure (ALTAPRESION):

Dr. Sunkara is very passionate about High Blood Pressure (ALTAPRESION).
  1. Hypertension (HTN) is a silent killer. In most, it does not cause any symptoms. One day it may change life with a heart attack, or a brain stroke.
  2. When told, that they have high blood pressure, they deny!
  3. We ask you to check your BP for 10 days and come back with real-time readings.
  4. Treatment involve from simple measures like cutting down salt, improving the diet and exercise may help. While some may need medications.
  5. We will educate our patients on risk factors, like weight, race, age, smoking, cholesterol, diabetes, sedentary life style/ lack of fitness, stress and family history.
  6. We check the heart with ultrasound to detect any stress on heart.
Don’t let Blood Pressure control you.
Let us have a heart to heart talk and control this no. 1 cause of death.

Diabetes Treatment is as follows

  1. Labs:
  2. What to eat and enjoy
  3. Medications
  4. Care of Eye, feet and kidneys
  5. Teaching how to use glucometer
  6. Fitness program.

TREATING HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE WITHOUT MEDICATIONS

We make every effort to treat high BP initially with the following
  1. Salt restriction
  2. Potassium rich foods
  3. Reaching ideal body weigyt
  4. The DASH diet
  5. Exercise
  6. Limit alcohol intake

COMPLICATIONS OF HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE

When told that they have BP,many patients deny and refuse to accept .
So we advise them to record BP at home for 10 days and bring back the readings HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE IS A SILENT KILLER
You may not feel anything,but one day,one or more of the following may happen
  1. Heat attack
  2. Brain stroke
  3. Heart failure
  4. Blindness
  5. Kidney failure

Please take care of your Blood Pressure