Hypertensive Heart Disease is the #1 cause of death and is associated with high blood pressure.

When the blood pressure is high long enough, it can cause many disorders like heart failure, ischemic heart disease and an excessive thickening of the heart muscle called left ventricular hypertrophy.

When heart failure appears it doesn’t mean that your heart has quit. It means that your heart cannot beat fast enough to give your body the nutrients and oxygen that it needs. This also means that the heart muscle walls stretch to be able to hold and pump more blood into the body. But eventually the heart just can’t keep up anymore.

Some of the side effects of heart failure are: the need to urinate through the night more frequently, difficulty lying down, shortness of breath, fatigued, being bloated, feet, ankles and/or abdomen being swelled, most of the time your feet and ankles will stay swelled. Most people are nauseated a lot of the time; usually caused from feeling or being bloated. You stay tired all the time.

If you have one or more of these symptoms, call your doctor immediately and make your symptoms known right away.