High Blood Pressure
Part of Supplement to Book 2
by Ching-Chee Chan, Ph.D.
All Rights Reserved
Egret Publishing Inc. November 1999
Many people are suffering from high blood pressure and the
number seems to be increasing, and also the age of patients at the
time of onset seems to be dropping. There are facts to support the
suspicion. People having strokes are younger than they used to be
and this is related to the dropping age of onsets for people getting
high blood pressure in Taiwan, according to a report by Huang
Xusheng of Central News Agency.hxs Statistics (see Book 2; page 36)
show increases in the disease of peripheral vascular system. People,
with autoimmune diseases such as scleroderma, also have damaged
blood vessels.cge, bla There may be a relationship among these. A
defective immune system (see ENL Mechanism, book 2; page 6) and
overproduction of TNF-alpha may play a role, leading to
inflammation of capillaries, resulting in thrombosed capillaries. The
heart acting like a pump forces blood to flow in the blood vessels
and the pressure will rise if there are obstructions. This is a
probable mechanism, a result of ENL.
Incidentally many people suffering from scleroderma complain
about high blood pressure on one of those web boards.
References
hxs. Huang Xusheng. Stroke is not a specialty of the old.
www.douweinews.com 1999 November 8.
cge. Casademont J, Grau JM, Estruch R, Pedro-Botet JC and
Urbano-Marquez A. Relationship between capillary and muscle
damage in dermatomyositis (report). Int J of Dermatology 1990; 29
(2): 117-120.
bla. Black CM. Scleroderma-clinical aspects (Minireview). J of
Internal Med 1993; 234: 115-118.