What is Hypertension?
When your doctor comin Hypertension suffering, you wonder what it is. Hypertension is a chronic disease, meaning that lasts for life and needs of drug treatment followed by dietary and hygienic.
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.