Hypertension can be avoided if social status increases

A number of Swedish researchers recently have found that the risk that a person has high blood pressure or hypertension was found to be influenced by improved social status. The improving economic level a person can indeed improve their social status. It also turns out the same effect on the risk of hypertension is a trigger factor of heart disease and stroke.

According to the researchers, a person born to poor families will experience a reduced risk of suffering from hypertension along with improving their social status. Studies conducted earlier have proved that there is a risk of high blood pressure among the poor and disadvantaged.

Experts started his research by studying the health and socioeconomic data involving 12,000 people born between 1926 and 1958. The result is known, high blood pressure commonly found in individuals who come from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Even found also, the risk of suffering from high blood pressure in this group recorded 42 percent higher than other groups.

Other risk factors that affect them the habit of drinking alcohol, low birth weight, born to poor families, overweight, and have short stature.

Researchers which include research in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health also found that people from lower socioeconomic strata can reduce the risk of hypertension almost 20 percent after they moved into a higher social status than those remain in a lower social level for two generations.