why eating salty foods would increase the risk of heart attack to people who suffer from high blood pressure?

Answer 1

Consuming foods high in salt content makes you thirsty and drink more water - this is our body's way of keeping the salt and water concentration balanced in our body. But because our body don't easily release the extra salts out of the body (through urine or sweat), the extra fluid is retained in the body as well, worsening the high blood pressure condition, and making your heart pump extra harder to push all the fluid around your body blood system.
If there is any existing clots or fats on the walls of the blood vessels, the resulting increased blood pressure (from the high salt intake) increases the chances of the clot/fat being dislodged from the wall and travelling along the blood vessels, until it eventually lodges in a small blood vessel, unable to move any further, thus blocking the blood vessel.
This then leads to a heart attack - an area of the heart affected by the blocked blood vessels starts to "die" from lack of blood supply (carrying oxygen, nutrients etc).

So it goes like this simply:
High salt = more fluid ratained = higher blood pressure = faster rate of blood flow = higher chances of an existing clot/fat dislodged from the blood vessel wall = higher chances of a blocked blood vessel = higher chances of a cheart attack. :)

Answer 2

3 years ago, I was diagnosed - hypertension with a reading of 160/100. I used to feel dizzy a lot, my legs had awful cramps, and levels were very low in my potassium, causing my fingers and toes to always cramp together. One day I started to feel really faint while I was driving with my daughter in the back seat and I passed out, hitting 3 cars and ending up in a ditch. That moment,I knew I had to do something because my meds weren't working. I heard about this diet from a friend and thought I'd give it a shot. The results have been remarkable. In just 21 days, I honestly can't remember feeling this good, my blood pressure went from 175/110 to 125/70.

Answer 3

Eating saltish foods let our body increase the amount of chlorestrol that we have...

When we have more chlorestrol.. especilally BAD CHLORESTROL, they will travel all over your body and have a higher chance of getting stuck somewhere.. if they stop near your heart and cause a blocking there, you tend to have heart attack.

IN addition, when they stop and create a blockae, your heart has to pump harder for the blood to flow through and thus your blood pressure is increased.

Increased sodium in diet is one of the biggest reaons for weight gain as well because of this reason.

Answer 4

Persons with elevated blood pressure have increased risk of stroke and heart attacks. The sodium in salt is a major cause of high blood pressure in many people.

Answer 5

Salt food increases the Blood Pressure which if not controlled may precipitate heart attack..

Answer 6

Salty foods retain H2O(water) in the body and therefore BPincreases even more, increaseing a chance of having heart attack even more- oposite of the water pill (diuretics) that decrease BP, that's the first thing that is prescribed to patients that suffer hypertension.

Answer 7

Because sodium makes your body tissue retain water increasing the workload on the heart.

Answer 8

Yes.