My BP rises after food, stays elevated for a couple of hours - does/did yours tread into red after eating?
I'm no doctor, but a good rule of thumb seems to be: If you don't have zero abdominal fat ie no paunch whatsoever, it needs to be lost - it's allegedly (justifiably blamed, I think) an indicator/predictor of many a health calamity. I'm continuing my weight loss efforts, until I can see clearly see my abdominal muscles (without cutting myself open - I don't want that clear a view) again.
Like many academics and coders: do you drink a lot of mega-strong coffee? Narrows arteries, increases cortisol?
That's great! Heading in the right direction.
But I'm confused as to why you have 11 stents.
I like coffee.. so yes . Would have drunk a lot . Typically now it's two Nespresso Vertuo ..the big cups per day. .
No.. BP would never?? Or very rarely in Red ..it might go into the yellow orange zone after popcorn ... Cooked in rapeseed oil , but with salt.
But remember those BPs are with lots of medicine...
Trying as a experiment ..with the Cardiologists permission to not use the beta blocker. Thats2 months now.
But the stents are very real . The belching episodes of 2+ years ago showed that the two main arteries feeding the heart muscle were at 95% and 85% clogged . At 100% , it's curtains (for the one which was then at 95%.. . Unfortunately the 85% one after been stented was fine and then started clogging up again ..and on two occasions went to 100% clogged. The symptoms being this tired jaw .. . One of those was a close call.. there is a blood enzyme which indicates imminent heart attack ,and my level was 40 times quiescent value. Each time I have been back, there is a rebore.
Subsequently a third artery was stented to help, should the one which clogs fail again. The last time I was in , July, he used a new style stent on the clogging artery and Ithink it is doing the trick
Anyway I am scheduled for yet another angiogram in December ...,but everything seems ok .
But the answer to your question is hereditary .. Grandfather on mother's side went very early, my own father at 72 , my elder brother had a treble bypass ,