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There is no Doubt : Drinking alcohol increases blood pressure and repeated drinking will causes blood pressure to unhealthy levels.In fact, high blood pressure is the most common alcohol-related health problem.
How Alcohol infect the blood pressure ?
Drinking a lot of alcohol can affect the muscles in your blood vessels. This can cause them to become narrower.
When your blood vessels are narrower, the heart has to work harder to push blood around your body. This makes your blood pressure go up.
Are you drinking too much?
The UK Chief Medical Officers' (CMO) low risk drinking guidelines advise that people should not regularly drink more than 14 units a week to keep health risks from alcohol low. If you do choose to drink, it is best to spread your drinks throughout the week.
One more , If you have high blood pressure, pls avoid alcohol or drink alcohol only in moderation. For healthy adults, that means up to one drink a day for women and up to two drinks a day for men.
What are the symptoms of high blood pressure?
Actually , You can't usually feel or notice high blood pressure. This is because high blood pressure very rarely causes any obvious symptoms until a serious acute event such as a heart attack or stroke.The best way of knowing if there’s a problem is to have your blood pressure measured .
How to reduce high blood pressure
- Limit alcohol
- Exercise regularly
- Eat a healthy diet
- Get a good night’s sleep
- Reduce sale in your diet
