{"id":163399,"date":"2025-12-02T03:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T03:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/163399\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T03:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T03:09:07","slug":"cardiologist-explains-how-early-blood-pressure-changes-can-predict-heart-attack-10-years-before-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/163399\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiologist explains how \u2018early blood pressure changes can predict heart attack 10 years before symptoms\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Are heart attacks sudden? Millions of people die from heart attacks and other cardiovascular diseases<\/a> (CVDs) each year, making CVDs the leading cause of death globally. Therefore, it is important to know the early signs before heart conditions can turn deadly.<\/p>\n

\"Early Early blood pressure changes predict heart attacks 10 years before symptoms. (Arun Sankar \/ AFP) <\/p>\n

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Dr Sanjay Bhojraj, MD, a functional medicine doctor and board-certified cardiologist <\/a>with over 20 years of experience, believes that certain early signs in blood pressure changes can predict a heart attack.<\/p>\n

Can early blood pressure changes predict a heart attack?<\/p>\n

On December 2, Dr Bhojraj posted a video on Instagram with the title, \u201cWhy is no one talking about how early blood pressure<\/a> changes predict\u2026heart attacks 10 years before symptoms.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the caption, the cardiologist explained that earlier he was a traditional cardiologist, seeing patients only after their symptoms arrived, such as:<\/p>\n

Chest painFatigueShortness of breath<\/p>\n

\u201cBy the time they landed in my office, their bodies had been whispering for years,\u201d he added. However, everything changed the day the cardiologist treated a patient whose heart attack was unexpected.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis cholesterol was normal. His weight was stable. But when I looked deeper, his blood pressure had been quietly changing for nearly a decade \u2014 long before anyone noticed,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n

The early signs you shouldn’t miss<\/p>\n

This moment shifted everything for Dr Bhojraj. He confessed, \u201cI realised we\u2019re not dealing with sudden heart disease \u2014 we\u2019re missing the early signals.\u201d Some of the earliest predictors of cardiovascular ageing, according to the cardiologist, are:<\/p>\n

Subtle blood pressure variabilityMorning surgesNight-time elevationsLoss of autonomic flexibility<\/p>\n

Here’s how the cardiologist started treating his patients: \u201cI stopped waiting for symptoms. I started looking at patterns, not normal ranges. I studied how stress, sleep, hormones, and inflammation shape blood pressure long before disease.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cNow I help people reduce their cardiovascular age before it becomes a crisis \u2014 and the transformation is profound. More energy. Better metabolic health. Stronger resilience. A younger heart. This is why I do what I do \u2014 because prevention shouldn\u2019t be a guessing game. And no one should wait for a wake-up call to understand their cardiovascular future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Note to readers: This article is for informational purposes only and not a substitute for professional medical advice. Always seek the advice of your doctor with any questions about a medical condition.<\/p>\n

This report is based on user-generated content from social media. HT.com has not independently verified the claims and does not endorse them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Are heart attacks sudden? Millions of people die from heart attacks and other cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) each year,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[97978,13239,97979,6351,52168,163,3549,85,46],"class_list":["post-163399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-blood-pressure-changes","tag-cardiologist","tag-cardiovascular-ageing","tag-cardiovascular-disease","tag-early-signs","tag-health","tag-heart-attack","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}