What is hypertension?
When your heart beats, it pumps blood into your arteries and creates pressure in ellas.Dicha pressure is getting the blood to circulate throughout the body.
Every time you take the tension given two figures. The first recorded systolic blood pressure (that which occurs in the arteries when the heart beats) and the second, the diastolic pressure (that which is recorded when the heart rests between beats).
If the pressure rises above the normal limit – and could be coded in 140/90 in adults – there is what we call high blood pressure is a common disease worldwide that affects more than 20 percent of adults between 40 and 65 years and almost 50 percent and those over 65.
But one of his greatest danger is that this is a bad silent. You can have high blood pressure and show no symptoms. Hence the importance of prevention.
If your blood pressure controlled, it can affect the functioning of the heart, brain and kidneys. Please note that hypertension is a cardiovascular risk factor that increases the risk of stroke.
So better understand what is hypertension and control is the best way to prevent and mitigate its consequences.
Do not forget that, although researchers have not found specific causes of hypertension, they have identified some risk factors that cause you to be more prone to allergies: obesity, high salt intake, alcohol, snuff, lack of exercise and stress are some of them. Note that if you have a family history of hypertension is to increase vigilance on your blood.
It is therefore essential to conduct periodic inspections and, for hypertension, combine the treatment prescribed by your doctor with a healthy diet and exercise.
How do I prevent it?
Although high blood pressure can not be definitively cured, there are a number of lifestyle which, together with the action of antihypertensive drugs, they can substantially control and avoid its consequences. Here are a number of useful advice for the prevention of hypertension and its control.
* Any adult over 40 years should regularly monitor your blood pressure. Moreover, if their parents or grandparents were hypertensive.
* Many hypertensive patients have normalized their blood pressure to reach your ideal weight. Avoid obesity.
* If your life is sedentary and physically very active, discover the pleasure of regular exercise and, if possible, outdoors. But remember to always adapt to their real possibilities: do not do more than physically possible.
* Reduce the level of salt in the preparation of their meals. Avoid also salty foods.
* Minimize animal fat in your diet and make it rich in vegetables, legumes, fruit and fiber.
* Do not smoke and avoid smoke polluted environments snuff. Invite the people around you stop smoking.
* Moderate consumption of alcoholic beverages. Do not take more than one or two glasses of wine a day and, at most, one drink a week.
* Do not drink too much exciting drinks such as coffee, tea, etc.
* Adhere to the treatment prescribed by your doctor and do not stop without their knowledge. Note the possible side effects attributable to drugs and
tell your doctor.
* Please note that hypertension is a powerful cardiovascular risk factor is enhanced when associated with high cholesterol, diabetes or uric acid. Try
control, in addition to their stress levels, these other risk factors listed.
