Relationship Between Weight And Blood Pressure Of Patients With High Blood Pressure

CHAPTER ONE 1.0    Introduction 1.1     Background of the Study           The number of people with high blood pressure is in the increase and research has shown that this condition is heightened by overweight of the patient. That is to say, the more one increases in weight, the higher the tendency of him or her becoming hypertensive. Mori TA (2007).           In essence, there is a symbolic relationship between being over-weight and being hypertensive or having high blood pressure. It is in the interest of people who are likely to develop high blood pressure (over-weight people) to seek out w…