High Blood Pressure Is Killing You Quietly — Here’s How

High blood pressure causes silent damage to your heart, brain, and kidneys long before any symptoms appear. But why does this happen?

In this video, Emergency Medicine Doctor Alex Wibberley explains how hypertension really works, and how to protect yourself before a crisis happens.

High blood pressure (hypertension) is one of the most dangerous and misunderstood medical conditions because it damages the body quietly for years while most people feel completely fine. Strokes, heart attacks, kidney failure, and dementia often feel sudden, but in reality, they are the end result of long-term, invisible vascular damage.

This video breaks down exactly how chronically elevated blood pressure injures your arteries, weakens your heart, disrupts kidney function, and increases the risk of cognitive decline and dementia. You’ll learn why blood pressure is best understood as a constant physical force, why damage happens below the symptom threshold, and why emergencies are often the first sign that something was wrong.


TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Introduction
03:08 - Why High Blood Pressure Is So Dangerous
05:04 - The Blood Vessel Damage That Starts Everything
07:31 - How High Blood Pressure Causes Stroke
11:01 - The Heart: How Pressure Slowly Breaks It
14:01 - The Kidney Damage Almost No One Talks About
17:07 - The Brain Beyond Stroke: Dementia and Cognitive Decline
20:02 - Why People Don't Feel This Happening
22:58 - The Patterns Emergency Doctors Recognise
25:30 - How to Protect Yourself
29:38 - Medication and Lifestyle: Not Either/Or
32:23 - The Quiet Killers Are the Most Preventable


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