“Many people, especially women, showed a significant increase in their systolic blood pressure, often above 160, after reaching 60 years old, while the diastolic blood pressure remained normal.”
The difference between systolic pressure and diastolic pressure is very big. Conditions related to age is not real hypertension, but a result of the deterioration of atherosclerosis and disappearance of vessels flexibility of the main arteries, especially the aorta. Due to harden and become more rigid, this artery vessels lose the ability of adjustment.
Blood vessel walls, which now is not elastic, can no longer regulate blood flowing from the heart calmly. As a result there are wave pulse that is not damped with high peak (systolic) and the curves are in (diastolic). In this case, different from the actual hypertension, atherosclerosis is more likely to be a cause than a result of high blood pressure.
People who suffer from circulatory disorders like described above they’re also often suffer from diabetes, abnormal lipid metabolism, heavy smokers, and showed other risk factors associated with atherosclerosis. If blood pressure does not exceed 170 mm Hg and had no other risk factors, life expectancy of these people more likely to be normal, but if the result turns out the pressure higher than 170 mm Hg, then the high pressure can cause congestive heart problems. In the case of who had severe atherosclerosis, just as in the case of chronic hypertension, there is danger of the emergence of one or more of the typical complications.
