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High blood pressure, a silent enemy and very dangerous

07.12.2015

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The famous "high pressure" is associated with a number of other diseases, such as myocardial infarction, heart failure and sudden death, among others.

There is exactly one age at which it starts to become a concern, but the "high pressure" as it is commonly called high blood pressure, is a health problem that affects about 30% to 40% of the population from 40 years. How is related to several factors, especially genetic, but also those relating to eating habits, it can affect individuals earlier in different ways.

"There's just an age at which it starts to become a concern, but the" high pressure "as it is commonly called high blood pressure, is a health problem that affects about 30% to 40% of the population from 40 years. "

One of the reasons for high blood pressure be an important condition to treat and monitor is that it is the major risk factor for stroke (CVA) and the second of myocardial infarction. Statistically, these are the biggest killers in the world. The feature that stands as a silent disease is precisely the fact that it does not always show clear symptoms.

In general, a patient who is severe hypertension carrier or prolonged and untreated (often lack) has, like symptoms, shortness of breath, headaches, fatigue, restlessness, nausea and partial impairment of vision due to injuries that may be affecting the heart, kidneys and brain. There is also a condition called hypertensive encephalopathy, which requires emergency medical care and can affect people with severe high blood pressure, leaving them in a kind of coma.

Blood pressure is the intensity with which the heart causes blood flow through the vessel and is determined by the volume of blood out of the organ in relation to the resistance that the liquid has to circulate throughout the body. The call is related to systolic contraction of the heart to pump blood to the circulatory system and is represented by the highest value, which is the first to be measured. The reference value is 120 mm Hg (millimeters of mercury). The diastolic pressure or minimum pressure reflects the resistance vessels to provide blood circulation. It is the lowest value and the second to be measured, being its reference value, around 80 mm Hg.

Thus, it is seen that the pressure is identified when the blood exerts pressure on the artery walls is very significant. The diagnosis of hypertension should be done by measuring the pressure in the doctor's office and is applied in cases where persons 18 years of age or older have values equal to or greater than 140 mmHg for systolic blood pressure and / or greater than or equal to 90 mmHg for diastolic blood pressure. The diagnosis should not be made with an independent measurement, but confirmed after at least two queries unless the values are above 170 mmHg (systolic) and / or 110 mmHg (diastolic).

"Studies show that the majority of future hypertension was careless with basic care for healthy living, today's great common knowledge and widely reported by the press and media in general."

PREHYPERTENSION

As other diseases that are common in our population, hypertension can and should be prevented through non-drug treatment and change of lifestyle. So it is important to monitor these aspects. Studies show that most hypertensive future was careless with basic care for healthy living, today's great common knowledge and widely reported by the press and media in general.

It is known that hypertension is linked to a genetic predisposition, which tends to increase, depending on the habits of the individual will develop throughout life. The big problem is that it is an asymptomatic condition. In practice, this amounts to saying that the patient becomes hypertensive without necessarily perceive the changes, adapting to the increased pressure and, in most cases, only notice when the problem is installed.

The literature shows that the term "pre-hypertension" was first described in 1939. Robinson and Brucer researchers reported that most hypertensive future presented blood pressure in the range of 120-139 / 80-89 mmHg. Although the designation is not considered as a category of illness, it allows the identification of people who can benefit from a rapid change in lifestyle, in order to lower blood pressure and prevent hypertension.

PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE

High blood pressure is a public health problem that must be fought mainly with information. Not only the diagnosis but, above all, how to prevent it, need to be disseminated and assimilated among the population. This would certainly drop by half the cases of heart disease. Unfortunately, the public health system that is not organized in an optimal way with respect to primary care to give the diagnosis.

On the other hand, it should be noted that, in certain cases, not just the individual go on to have a "healthy life". It is an erroneous view quite disseminated the idea that good alternative is simply not "take medicine" and bet all the "exercises". Those with mild hypertension diagnostic have to control, but also control with medication. One does not exclude the other.

In addition, the radical change of lifestyle is not a goal that is accomplished from night to day and back to ancient customs harmful to health is almost always predictable. Moreover, blood pressure, who has been diagnosed, requires a constant control. Medications are important as a result. Nothing prevents, however, that someone who has achieved remarkable results, such as major weight loss and improvement in power, can review your treatment with your doctor, obviously.

Another recurring question is about people whose families already have cases of hypertensive patients. If there is genetic inheritance, it is known that there is a trend and this brings us to the main point is that better compliance standards of healthy eating habits and lifestyle. In practice it is to avoid anything that contributes to increase the pressure, do not gain too much weight, avoid high-salt diet, physical activities and always monitor the arterial levels. For children, parents or guardians must prevent the unregulated intake and physical inactivity.

RELATED DISEASES

Hypertension is a chronic disease that leads to complications that can reach other organs, when not properly diagnosed and treated. It is associated with diseases such as

- Cardiac insufficiency

- Loss of vision (hypertensive retinopathy)

- Sudden death

- Ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke (stroke)

- Myocardial infarction

- Cardiac arrhythmias

- Aneurysms

- Renal insufficiency 

HIGHLIGHTS

- The main cause of hypertension is genetic predisposition, but it's more than proven that the environment influences a lot, especially the food factor.

- Who are obese run the risk of developing hypertension.

- From the age of 40, it is common that hypertension affects approximately 30% of the population. It is an important age to this health problem.

- Weight control through healthy diet consisting of lots of vegetables, is the first step.

- Who already have a diagnosis of hypertension should seek to take the drugs strictly follow the doctor's prescription.

- Remember that you need to avoid the use of anti-inflammatory. This category of drugs can jeopardize the operation of the pressure control remedies.

- They are called normotensive individuals that present less than or equal to 120/80 mmHg pressures; pre-hypertensive those with pressures between 121/81 - 139/89 mmHg; grade 1 hypertensive those with pressures between 140/90 - 159/99 mmHg; grade 2 and hypertensive those with higher pressures or equal to 160/100 mmHg.

- Are important risk factors for high blood pressure an individual's ethnicity (is prevalent among black people); obesity framework; high alcohol consumption, smoking, saturated fat and salt; high cholesterol, obstructive sleep apnea and physical inactivity.

 

Source: iBahia

 

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