Diseases That Sneak Up On You When You Think You Are Healthy

in hive-139765 •  3 months ago 
An individual should ideally strive to be healthy by eating properly as well as exercising often. However, it is not advisable to look at others who are not doing the same and instantly judge them because the reality is that one does not know how many problems one may have even when one maintains a healthy diet and a regular workout routine. Most of these bad situations may go undetected until they're serious.

Normal circumstances may lead you to believe there is nothing wrong with your health; high blood pressure, however, is one of the silent killers that can sneak up on you regardless of your daily workouts or adherence to gym schedules. It is likely that more than half of the people reading this article are even suffering from hypertension to some degree. Just because it runs in the family and is common does not mean it is benign or less dangerous.


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Nowadays, a large number of people have hypertension. It is when the blood pressure developed while pushing blood through the arteries causes the heart to bear too much pressure and work extra hard. With the heart under pressure, more stress is distributed throughout the body as everything begins to work even harder. As the arteries face more stress, it increases chances of the vessels rupturing causing an aneurysm. An aneurysm causes blockages that may cause stroke, and working extra hard on the kidneys or other organs may also lead to their damage.

As far as I know and up to the writing of this post, the medical community has not pinpointed any specific origin of hypertension; however, some experts have attributed it to one's diet and lifestyle, and these factors are indeed brought up because these are the things we can do something about, but the reality is that most of the reasons that leads to hypertension, are beyond such as familial history, ethnicity, age, stress and so on. Even though these conditions may be well within your body without your knowledge, monitoring your own blood levels will be equally simple: blood pressure should be checked frequently. Once it is detected during the earlier stage of the disease, there are many available forms of therapy to treat the disease.


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Now you may be in your 30s and looking after yourself, but the way the ovaries of females are designed makes it impossible to manage their health. Even if you exercise and eat properly, you can be one of those women of childbearing age who are suffering from Polycystic Ovary Disease which is prevalent in around 10% of the women. Despite being in this 10% of women, where the condition exists, almost half of these women go undiagnosed. With this condition, the female body produces excessive amounts of male hormones that interfere with a woman’s ability to ovulate. This condition doesn’t come alone, it is a risk factor for developing type 2 diabetes, Endometrial Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease, and other syndromes.

Though you have no scan of your eyes, there is absolutely no chance you will know that you have such a condition, unless you have an affirmative diagnosis of it. Certain women have this condition, but it is more often than not subclinical, meaning that it derives no signs that would encourage one to seek a diagnosis. Common symptoms include those associated manually irregular menstrual periods, recalcitrant acne, excessive body and facial hair, hair loss condition and the likes, which can lead to its mistreatment.


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Cancer is one condition that is very difficult to diagnose at its early stage despite the advancement that has been made in the field to enable detection of cancer at its early stage but there is one cancer that is very hard to detect and that is ovarian cancer and most of the times the symptoms are mistaken for other diseases and therefore are not recognized by the doctors which is why ovarian cancer is diagnosed at a late stage that is at stage 3 in most patients.

Some of the symptoms of this cancer are abdominal pain, discomfort, nausea, urination, weight loss and fatigue. At the moment there is the no symptoms, way the of doctors establishing and the are diagnosis able of to this identify cancer it but and with diagnose it. There are many diseases and other conditions that can occur in our body and we do not expect, such as cancer as a result of high blood pressure.

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