There are many reasons why people develop high blood pressure, but excess alcohol and high blood pressure more often than not go ‘hand in hand’.  The most important thing is to have your blood pressure checked regularly and if you are diagnosed with high blood pressure and you do drink alcohol to excess then the chances are the alcohol is the cause of your high blood pressure.

It is important for everyone to understand that high blood pressure can be developed whatever the age.  Alcohol and high blood pressure does not affect only middle-aged or older people as is so often presumed.  You may say I’m only young yet so I couldn’t possibly suffer from Alcohol and high blood pressure.  That is not strictly true anyone at any age can become a victim.

It has often been known for certain people to say I only drink heavily at the weekends and go without any alcohol for the rest of the week so alcohol and high blood pressure couldn’t possibly affect me.  Anyway I’m only young and want to have a good time when I go out.  Remember it is much safer to have one small alcoholic drink each evening that it is to go out binge drinking.

Most of us like to have a tipple at some time or other, but everything in moderation is much safer and your chances of developing high blood pressure are much lower.  Don’t allow yourself to become a victim of having problems with alcohol and high blood pressure.

No matter what kind of alcohol you drink if you drink it to excess then your chances of becoming one of the number of people having alcohol and high blood pressure raises considerably.

Moderate drinking of wine, especially red wine raises levels of ‘good’ cholesterol and is considered good for us.  Red wine contains powerful antioxidants that come from the pigments in grape skin.  Government guidelines suggest that if we drink alcohol to remain healthy we shouldn’t have more than one unit per day for women and two units per day for men only.  One unit of alcohol is a small glass of wine (preferably red), a pub measure of spirits or half a pint of standard beer.  If you partake of alcohol sensibly then you should not be linked with alcohol and high blood pressure.