It can be modified by variations in blood volume or viscosity (thickness) of blood, heart rate (beats per minute) and the elasticity of blood vessels. The hormonal and nerve signals that regulate the resistance blood are influenced by personal and environmental.

What is it?

Hypertension is blood pressure above 140/90 mmHg (millimeters of mercury) in adults over 18 years, measured at rest for fifteen minutes and confirmed on three consecutive occasions and in several visits.

Occasional elevations of pressure can occur with physical exercise, nervousness, worry, drugs, food, tobacco, alcohol and coffee.

Care to measure blood pressure

Care should be taken when there is blood pressure:

• rest 15 minutes in a calm and pleasant
• the bladder should be empty (urinate before)
• after exercise, alcohol, coffee or smoke, wait 30 minutes to measure
• the cuff pressure device should be stable and well adjusted to the arm and have a width of 40% of arm circumference, and this should be kept at heart
• not speak during the procedure
• wait 1 to 2 minutes between measurements
• cuff especially for obese children and should be used
• a sitting or lying position is recommended in routine measures it is far lower value obtained

In these times where speed and technology seem to dominate the stage of life, many people seem to have lost the ability to recognize certain signs that try to pass on their bodies.

Indeed, many of us are too busy with our hectic pace of life, and is more than likely that we only note that there is something wrong in our physical health only when we noticed the presence of a serious symptom, and not before, when the body shows its first signs and adverse physical condition is still not as sharp.

Yet even when it manifests the presence of some severe symptoms, many people try to remove these signs as soon as possible, no interest in finding out the root causes of their illnesses, and attempt to remove them completely from your body, with the sole purpose of returning to their normal lives, the same that caused the ailments currently experienced.

Businesses, social commitments, are all good excuses to find the fastest solution is at hand, whether it is temporary, and if you can not attack the root of the ailment. In this sense it is not uncommon for many people (many professionals!) Devised only to specific affected organ or member as the cause of their problems, dismissing the big picture this is, overall health.

When we talk about global health, we are referring to a state that includes the emotional level, which, “for a growing number of health professionals, translates directly to the known physical illnesses that affect our body.

Gone are the old concepts of medicine that saw man as a kind of machine made up of gears and sprockets. Today, we know that taking the emotional health, is also taking physics, thus preventing the suffering and depression, and the emergence of new diseases.

Therefore, it is essential that we understand the need to understand why he has lost mental balance, before it is too late and developed severe psychological illness, which affects also the rest of our body.

Unfortunately, the current world has largely numbed our sensibilities, so that more than one occasion we note the internal disarray in which we spend our lives, only when some of the functions of our body says Enough! and severely affected. This is the consequence, as we stated earlier, failure to detect the roots of our problems.

Today, modern medical scientific community is increasingly convinced that the health of people, the mind influences a key way, determining how our bodies react against different types of inheritance, environment, diet, activities, rest, relaxation, etc..

Many investigations have shown that the mind plays an essential role for the proper functioning of the overall health, so it is not surprising that large numbers of doctors, seeking to incorporate techniques and therapies that take into account the mental aspect of humans.

The trains, treatment with long-term weight on the heart produces a condition that is called simply heart hypertrophy or fat. The heart of a person practicing weightlifting is as if having sustained hypertension, which is risky for people who suffer from the so-called pressure.

Weight lifting is important and helps increase muscle mass, however, should prevent abuse of this type of exercise as well as any other because it may cause heart enlargement.

The hypertension recommended not exaggerate when doing any type of exercise because it is not synonymous with health.

The consequences can range from conditions such as fatigue, muscle pain, poor sleep and appetite, to decreased levels of sex hormones in both men and women that affect their libido. Therefore, it should be practiced always medically supervised exercise training.

The cardiac hypertrophy is due to the increased size of myocardial muscle fibers, the dilation of the cavities or both problems together.

The result could be a huge risk of causing heart failure, as the weakened muscle does not pump efficiently. Then the blood flows more slowly through the heart and tend to form clots that can cause pulmonary or cerebral thromboembolism, heart attack or stroke or other circulatory blockage.

When blood pressure is consistently high, we can say that a picture is suffering from hypertension. Systolic blood pressure rises due to various reasons such as physical exercises, and the hard work, but also by strong emotions such as anger, fear, and anxiety. Diastolic blood pressure is very significant in relation to the state of the heart, and reflects the level of basal pressure in the arterial network.

In this sense, the emotional roller coaster, and physical and mental activity can alter levels of PS. It happens that as you change the physical and mental activity, also modified the requirements of blood from different parts of the body. To meet these needs extras, the heart has to pump blood with greater pressure.

Thus she can say that blood pressure depends on the activity of each person, which may also vary in the same person during different parts of the day. So much so that the PS changes not only when a person walks or runs, but when you sit, or stand.

But as noted, hypertension also depends on the mental constitution of a particular person, so that two different people might respond differently to similar situations.

There are two types of hypertension. The first is called primary or essential, while the second, secondary.

Primary Hypertension

In this case, patients do not experience any specific symptoms, even if they have high blood pressure. The causes of this specific type of hypertension are still unknown day for medical science. But we do know, however, is that if it is not detected and controlled at an early stage, can cause heart attacks and kidney damage, thereby reducing life expectancy by years and even decades. Usually, the causes that are attributed to primary hypertension, has to do with:

a. The stress and effort

b. Emotional problems

c. Genetic factors

d. The world of work

e. Obesity

f. The geographic location and climatic condition of the place where one stays

g. The type of personality, especially the ambitious, overworked, anxious and hyperactive

h. Bad lifestyles, such as lack of exercise, use or abuse of stimulants, or an inappropriate diet.

Secondary Hypertension

This is a type of hypertension that occurs as a collateral consequence of some physical cause, such as:

a. Infections or kidney damage

b. Malfunction of the endocrine glands

c. Aortas arteries narrow or very broad

d. Hardening of the arteries, or thick compound formation in the inner walls of the same, condition called atherosclerosis.

e. Loss of elasticity in arteries or veins, blood clots, or fat accumulation, which results in the closure of many arteries, causing damage to the organs to which these arteries supply blood.

f. Pregnancy

g. Blockages in blood vessels formed at birth. To get through these vessels, the pressure must increase. These blockages of the vessels can also develop later in life mainly because of the same PS.

h. Malfunction of the pituitary gland

i. Excess or lack of work of the thyroid gland

j. Blockages in the vessels of the kidney

k. Excessive secretion of adrenal hormones

Hypertension is usually asymptomatic, in other words means it is a disease that has no easy to notice symptoms. Indeed, hypertension often goes generally unnoticed, so more than once can only be detected when it is too late, and the same and becomes chronic. For that reason, hypertension is also called the “silent murderer” or “disease in disguise.”

Once the chronic hypertension has been made, most likely emerge stronger symptoms such as headaches, presence of strange sounds in the ears, constant feeling of fatigue, cloudy vision, or failure in kidney function.

Hypertension, as is well known, is one of the major risk factors for cardiovascular disease. And so much so that a reduction in blood pressure is an increase of life expectancy and quality of life expectations.

A recent study by the Medical University of Graz, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, based on 48 articles of slimming treatments studied in hypertension, is conclusive: thin-pound (an attainable goal with a reasonable effort) reduces diastolic blood pressure by 6 mm. of mercury.

Another interesting finding is that the voltage drop is less important if it is achieved through a diet drug. The aforementioned 6 mm., Achieved through diet, remain at 2.5 if reduced, these same 4 kg. with Orlistat.

This study confirms something that already was public knowledge: lose weight, aside from the aesthetic benefits and other, greatly improves our health. And it does, a fortiori, be worth the effort.

Hypertension produces an increase in the number of tension, stress or blood pressure is the force exerted by blood on the walls of blood vessels. To measure this value, it uses two digits, the highest value is the maximum or systolic pressure (occurs when the heart muscle contracts and expels blood from the ventricles to blood vessels), the lower is the diastolic pressure (occurs when the heart muscle relaxes and falls back blood to the heart).

What are the normal values of blood pressure
If we take the averages of all ages get a systolic pressure of 120 mm Hg. and a diastolic pressure of 80 mm Hg.  The World Health Organization considers that 140/90 mm Hg is the upper limit of normal. Values higher than 160/95 mm Hg are indicative of hypertension.

Causes of Hypertension:
Only 10% of cases the cause is determined, once the disease treated hypertension based improvement.

The remaining cases, 90%, the exact cause is unknown, is believed to be due to various risk factors, and often the lifestyle of the person. A risk factor is excess weight, it is estimated that 50% of hypertensive patients are obese. Dietary habits also play an important role, excessive salt consumption can cause.

Also stress, emotions, tensions and concerns in the workplace and the home can occur. The lack of physical exercise and sedentary lifestyle, and excessive consumption of alcohol may increase the numbers.

Care to reduce the number of voltage
1 .- Take the medication indicated in the right way, do not forget to take it daily or leave the treatment on our own.
2 .- Take a diet low in sodium. Do not take the following foods for their high sodium content:

Cooking salt or table
Meat salted, smoked and cured.
Smoked and dried fish.
Shellfish and caviar.
Delicatessen.
Cheese cured too.
Melba toast with bread and salt.
Olives and salted.
Nuts.
Preserved.
Savory sauces and seasonings.
Soups and broths prepared envelope.