High blood pressure warning: Paresthesia could signal you are having a hypertensive crisis
High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, is famously branded the “silent killer” because it is usually symptomless. If the force of blood pushing against the walls of your blood vessels increases severely, you may experience marked changes, however. This is called a hypertensive crisis.
According to Mayo Clinic, a hypertensive crisis causes the blood vessels to become inflamed and may leak fluid or blood.
A study published in the journal Nature ranked different hypertensive crisis symptoms according to their prevalence.
The study sought to characterise the profile of hypertensive crisis over the course of one year in a university reference hospital and perform a review of the literature.
The study monitored 362 patients who presented for treatment at the emergency hospital with hypertensive crisis.
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