Knowing Your Blood Pressure Level Is Important
I am told that Sherlock Holmes believed that there was only so much space for lease in the memory room of his brain, so he refused to learn or remember what he considered to be useless facts lest they displace information more vital to his work.
I can only conclude that most of you hold to this theory, too, because according to the Heart and Stroke Foundation, a whopping 42% of Canadians with high blood pressure (HBP) aren’t aware that they have it. And even if you do choose to devote some brain space to monitoring blood pressure, researchers at Heart and Stroke say many who use home monitoring devices aren’t using them properly - and therefore aren’t getting accurate readings. It should be no surprise, then, that HBP remains a significant cause of strokes, heart attacks, kidney failure, and several other debilitating conditions.
And for you arrogant young ‘uns who are smirking right now that it’s only old people who could be so dumb, I don’t believe that you do any better than us older folks. Go on, admit it. Do you know your blood pressure level? Have you checked it in the last year, as we advise you to do in order to improve your chance of good health later on? If you have high blood pressure, it’s never too early to find out.
So get with the program, all of you: memorize or write down your blood pressure (as well as other vital facts such as your lipid levels), check it regularly, and if it’s elevated consistently despite your attempts to control it with lifestyle modification, have it treated (usually that means medications) and get checked regularly to see that your blood pressure has been lowered to safe levels. And if in the process of having to remember your blood pressure, you happen to forget other essential data like all the words to this week’s Number One song or how many homers Ken Griffey hit last year, well, that’s life, eh!
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