Hypertension
A common cardiovascular disorder
graphic heart is the vital organ par excellence, but sometimes may not work correctly. While lifestyle, diet, exercise and suffer other diseases can influence the state of the muscle, sometimes not enough to take better care to avoid developing certain cardiovascular disorders.
Our circulatory system is like a road network roundtrip travel where blood carrying oxygen to all tissues and organs of our body. This blood flow is essential to life, but does not always happen the right way. Whether the pressure with which your heart pumps is too high if too low, your cardiovascular system, and therefore our life be in danger. One of the most common disease that is related to hypertension, a condition that must be controlled and monitored medically.
Our heart has two states: the systole and diastole. High blood pressure is called the systolic, which is what occurs in the arteries of the heart’s pumping phase. For its part, diastolic, is responsible for measuring the amount of pressure while the heart is resting between beats. According to Dr. Nieves Martel, Hypertensive Club Coordinator of the Spanish Society of Hypertension and of the Spanish League to Fight High Blood Pressure (SEH.-LELHA), this condition can be described as “the elevation of blood pressure when the patient or maximum systolic blood pressure equal to or greater than 140 and diastolic or minimal, less than 90 mmHg. ” The normal range for an adult are at 120/80 mmHg, representing the first issue of high blood pressure and the second floor.
Hypertension is a disease too common, in fact, in Spain is estimated that about 30% of the adult population may suffer a greater or lesser extent. However, these figures could be significantly higher, since many suffer without ever having been diagnosed with it. This uncontrolled hypertension can cause multiple health problems and even lead to premature death, so it is very important to get in the hands of a specialist in notice any symptom that can make us believe that something is wrong.
It is also “more common after age 60 and in males, although the prevalence of the disease is equal in both sexes from a woman enters menopause,” says Dr. Martel. Furthermore, it is an inherited disorder, so it is likely that several people from one family to suffer.
Care is critical
The causes that can lead to suffer from this disease are unknown, however, yes it is clear that “there be a genetic predisposition to hypertension, but lifestyle is to relocate what will be revealed sooner or later,” says the specialist. Or what is the same, if we take a less sedentary pace, take care of our diet and not live under too much stress, hypertension is likely to take longer to appear.
Therefore, take care of our diet and our lifestyle should be the first point in treatment for hypertension. Also, being a chronic disease, educate the patient to be completely change their habits and life is more important. They have to adjust to their case and, moreover, must be “complemented with antihypertensive medication your doctor recommends,” Nieves says Martel. The doctor that if this incident were not taken into account with the necessary rigor, the patient “might have a serious cardiovascular complication.”
In some cases, hypertension can lead to premature death. This is because often produces no symptoms and “when found, usually because there has been a complication after the patient’s circulatory system,” said the expert. It is therefore essential that overweight and family history made periodic checks of your blood pressure status, since they are the group most at risk.
Having a blood pressure above normal values may trigger our circulatory system to collapse. That said, if a hypertensive person does not care enough, the chances of heart attack, angina, stroke or thrombosis multiply. It can also be very damaging to the kidneys, in some cases be required dialysis.
To reduce the impact that a person may have this chronic disorder, the first step is to reduce salt intake of foods high in cholesterol and coffee. A healthy balanced diet and an aerobic exercise program will help strengthen your heart and lose weight. Experts recommend at least 30 minutes walk or jog daily, especially for the elderly. Also, snuff and alcohol are the enemies of our arteries, so their use should be avoided. With this in mind, the best treatment for this disease and to prolong and improve our quality of life, is in our hand.
