High Blood Pressure and Alcohol

Reduce alcohol to avoid high blood pressure (Hypertension)

If you take too much alcohol, this will increase your blood pressure with time. Moreover Alcohol also contains a lot of calories which will also increase your weight and This will further increase your blood pressure.Also, alcohol can interfere with the effectiveness and increase the side effects of some blood pressure medications. There have been several scientific studies over the last 100 years that have confirmed that Alcoholism is ONE of several causes of Hypertension. Originally it was suggested that alcoholism was a cause of hypertension irrespective of a whole range of other associated socio economic factors such as economic status, your age, race, weight, serum cholesterol levels or even tobacco use. When Alcohol is present in the blood stream it covers the blood vessels and artery walls thereby increasing their tension and thereby increasing the blood pressure. This is the basic version and there are more complex definitions and explanations in existence but these are for the Medical Textbooks!

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