What are the risks of high blood pressure? How to prevent its consequences and look after your health

Seasonal infections are no longer the main challenge for employers - today it is the effects of long-term stress and lifestyle diseases. The greatest threat is still cardiovascular disease, which continues to account for around 40% of deaths in Poland. One of the most common problems is high blood pressure. See what risks it carries and why smart prevention in the workplace is a business necessity.

• More than 10 million adult Poles live with high blood pressure. That means the problem may affect part of your team.
• High blood pressure does not hurt, which is why employees often ignore early signs of cardiac problems for years.
• Untreated high blood pressure can lead to a heart attack or a stroke. For a company this means unexpected absence of key specialists lasting many months, which disrupts the work of an entire department and generates enormous losses.
• Giving employees medical data about the state of their health is the strongest impulse for them to look after themselves on several levels.

Imagine one of your best experts suddenly disappearing for long months. What are the risks of high blood pressure, if day to day the employee does not complain of any symptoms? Tiredness or a slightly worse day, especially in people over 40 living under a lot of stress, is very easy to put down to overwork.

If high blood pressure is not diagnosed in time, every day it puts a strain on the blood vessels, slowly destroying the body from the inside. That can mean a risk of a stroke or a heart attack within the next 10 years.

How can you help your team and get people to act on prevention? You have to give them the right tools.

At LongLife we know that employee health requires very specific support: skilful stress management, proper recovery and - above all - regular checks of the body's indicators. That is exactly what our concept of lifestyle medicine is about.

Screening packages designed with employees in mind can be the strongest impulse to change habits. We take the biggest inconvenience off your team's shoulders. Running the tests on site with our mobile team means that not having time for a clinic visit stops being an obstacle to looking after your health.

Our mobile medical team comes straight to your office and takes care of everything on site. The tool for tackling the risk of high blood pressure is the comprehensive „Strong Heart” Package we have prepared. What exactly does it include?

The test takes just a few minutes, requires no referrals and allows the results to be assessed without sending samples off to a laboratory. From this small sample we measure the lipid panel (total cholesterol, LDL and HDL fractions and triglycerides) to assess the risk of atherosclerosis. We also check the uric acid level, which shows how the kidneys are working and indicates the risk of gout and metabolic disorders.

We measure BMI and blood pressure. We also check saturation, that is the level of oxygen in the blood, and collect the necessary information through a medical questionnaire.

Based on the clinical parameters collected, age, sex and information about the employee's current lifestyle, we carry out an individual analysis of the risk of death from cardiovascular disease over the next 10 years. The employee receives the information and any recommendations.

The whole process runs smoothly even in larger companies. Employees gain knowledge about their health and full comfort, and you as the employer do not lose their valuable working hours.

By introducing cardiac prevention and regular health reviews as part of your wellbeing strategy, you create a sense of security in the team and invest in your company's most important asset - its people.

1. Pacjent.gov.pl, High blood pressure does not hurt - get tested regularly (accessed at: https://pacjent.gov.pl/aktualnosc/nadcisnienie-tetnicze-nie-boli-badaj-sie-regularnie)