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Hypertension
Hypertension is a blood pressure equal to or greater than 140/90 on at least two shots taken by different people.
Usually this condition is silent, and casually known as the silent disease because it is only to the years that begins to manifest symptoms. Usually associated with heart disease such as angina, heart attacks or heart failure can kidney problems, including kidney failure and lower limb arterial problems that manifest as pain when walking (intermittent claudication), arterial pulses on palpation of the lower limbs, these are diminished.
The treatment is initially based on salt restriction, exercise, changing lifestyles. If not controlled blood pressure are prescribed a number of oral medications that the doctor should be defined for each particular case.
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Hypertension and High Blood Pressure
High blood pressure, also called hypertension, is a condition in which the force of blood pumped by the heart is consistently high due to the resistance of the arteries against blood flow. Blood pressure is measured as the pressure of the beating heart (systolic) pressure on the heart at rest (diastolic). Hypertension is defined as a blood pressure of 140/90. The normal or healthy blood pressure for adults should be an average of 120/80 or less.
According to the American Heart Association, nearly a third of American adults have high blood pressure, and 30% did not know it! This is why hypertension is known as “the silent murderer.” No sign of warning and no definitive cause.
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High Blood and The Risk is Also High
When compared with other killer diseases, hypertension is less feared. Yet compared with other diseases, the dangers of high blood diseases over many times, the death rate from cardiovascular disease is six times higher than the cancer.
Hypertension is a term for diseases characterized by blood pressure level above normal or achieved 140/90 mmHg or more. This disease has a unique, easy to detect but the exact cause is unknown. Hypertension is often referred to as the hidden killer (silent killer), because the symptoms are not felt someone for years until serious problems arise.
According dr.Hananto Andriatoro. SpJP, from the National Cardiovascular Center Harapan Kita, people suffering from hypertension are also vulnerable to the complications of three important organs in the body, ie heart failure, narrowing of the arteries in the kidney and brain (stroke). In addition, hypertension is also a major cause of the emergence of coronary heart disease. Read the rest of this entry »
The Social Cost Of Hypertension
High blood pressure is an issue of great importance in the socio-health for three main reasons: the high number of individuals affected by this morbid form, the fact that this is one of the main risk factors for some of the most common diseases currently afflicting the population of countries with higher economic development, the high cost of health management in the prevention, treatment, Prognosis, periodic inspections.
In most European countries, the percentage allocated to spending on cardiovascular drugs is at the top, make exceptions for some countries such as Finland, Germany, Britain, Austria and Spain, where a second.
In Italy, drugs for the cardiovascular system are still the most prescribed therapeutic category. According to the report OsMED 2007, this therapeutic class is the first requirement is in place in terms of expenditure and quantity required. Moreover, the consumption of cardiovascular drugs is growing.
In 2007, the ratio OsMED drugs for the prevention of cardiovascular risk are part of the lion. Among the 30 active ingredients in most prescription, 19 belong to Class C or B and between 4 are ACE inhibitors, angiotensin receptor blockers 3, 2 statins, beta-blockers and 2 ASA 2. Read the rest of this entry »
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Hypertension (high blood pressure)
Hypertension blood is a very common condition: in industrialized countries one in five has high blood pressure. Although some time is well known that high blood pressure can result in serious cardiovascular complications, only 30% of all hypertensive pressures effectively controlled.
This disturbing reality is due to many factors. First and foremost the fact that hypertension does not cause problems: if that happens then the pressure is not measured regularly, many hypertensive patients do not know to be such. Moreover, a large proportion of people not taking hypertensive drugs that are prescribed to lower blood pressure. Moreover, only half of hypertensive patients treated pharmacologically are unable to maintain pressure within the normal range. To change this situation and ensure that all hypertensive patients are aware of the importance and benefits that can be obtained from a blood pressure control requires a better understanding of hypertension and its consequences. This was the belief that dictated the writing of the booklet
Complications Of Hypertension
Increasing the pressure over the maximum limits in damage in some organs, called target organ: the stretch of the vessel wall, overwork the heart muscle, abnormal renal of brain and eye.
It is shown that the longer the pressure remains high is the highest risk of complications. These changes result in:
* Thickening of the walls of the heart muscle (as if the muscle was subjected to “body building“) and this in turn can lead to problems of heart failure up to, or myocardial ischemia, until dalliance ’stroke.
* Alterations of cardiac structures, particularly the dilation of the aorta, initially up to mild aortic valve insufficiency.
Damage to roads due to the continuous stretching of their walls that causes two types of changes: small lesions of the inner cell layer, which opens the door to infiltration and the deposition of fat in the wall and then atherosclerosis; the reaction of the muscular layer thickening of the arteries in certain districts vascular tree.
In turn, these changes cause vascular damage in the structures that supply: the brain may reduce oxygenation of the nerve cells with their failure, to dementia, or cause the rupture of a vessel and lead to strokes, kidney to alter the function of this organ and thus the accumulation or loss in the urine of particular substances, to cause the lowering of the ocular view.
Risk Factors
Primary or essential hypertension, although not identified a precise cause, there are some factors that may support or enhance disease: risk factors. These fall into two categories: Read the rest of this entry »
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What Is Hypertension
Hypertension is the steady increase of pressure beyond certain levels and can be detected by the physician in most later measurements, a random survey of high pressure is a warning bell that requires more frequent measurements, but is not sufficient for diagnosis high blood pressure.
Blood pressure is determined by three main factors:
* The amount of blood that is pumped into the circulation;
* Resistance vessels (arteries and veins) in the bloodstream;
* The activities of the cardiac pump.
These three elements are in turn controlled by many factors, such as hormones, nerve stimulation, activity of some organs (eg kidney, adrenal, thyroid). The level of blood pressure is the result of the continuous, instantaneous interaction of all these factors together.
But why is it important that the pressure remains within certain values? Scientific studies have shown that the cardiovascular system and the whole body working optimally and receive oxygen and nutrients through the blood with blood pressure very specific maximum or systolic pressure of 115-120 mmHg or diastolic pressure of at least 75-80 mmHg. Read the rest of this entry »
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Hypertension (High Blood Pressure)
Hypertension, an abnormal blood pressure, affects 63 million Americans. The cause is usually unknown, but hypertension often accompanies atherosclerosis or renal failure. Blood pressure is the force that blood exerts on the walls of blood vessels. The pressure increases temporarily after physical exertion or emotional stress but after a moment of relaxation back to normal. The trouble begins as soon as the pressure does not return to normal but remains high.
This is called essential hypertension, that is independent of specific causes or diseases without apparent cause. Blood pressure has two values: the systolic pressure is the highest value measured while the heart pumps and the diastolic blood pressure measured at rest between beats another. Neither of the two values should be high, normal values are between 110/70 and 140/90.
Although there is a certain cause of hypertension, we know that lifestyle contributes to this disorder. The excess of alcohol (the occasional drinking of large quantities of alcohol, significantly increased blood pressure) fats in the diet, overweight, and salt stress, the lack of fiber, exercise, potassium and calcium are all factors which contribute to hypertension. If this phenomenon becomes stable can cause heart failure (congestive heart failure, coronary heart disease and diseases of the aorta), kidney disease or stroke. Read the rest of this entry »
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Diet And Hypertension
High blood pressure is now one of the most widespread diseases in industrialized countries, often many people are unaware of their medical condition if not before the appearance of a sensational event, that’s why the attention of information structures is facing the appropriate authorities information campaigns.
Hypertension is a disease characterized by a significant increase in blood pressure values than the norm. An individual is defined hypertensive when their systolic blood pressure or maximum is greater than 140 mmHg and diastolic or minimum is greater than 95 mmHg, these values, however, vary continuously, so before confirming a diagnosis of hypertension pressure must be measured several times. Read the rest of this entry »
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Hypertension, Lowering Blood Pressure In Summer
Hypertension, lowering blood pressure estateDopo a year of intense work, but often when being subjected to stress or pathological causes for pressure measurement may hold the nasty surprise of finding phenomena of hypertension or high blood pressure either the systolic pressure (the maximum) and the minimum diastolic pressure).
High blood pressure often leads to problems lata risk, as well known, both for the heart, the brain to the nervous system and kidney. Subject specialist medical consultation if you have any phenomena of hypertension during the summer and more relaxed when you can take small steps acts to lower blood pressure and thus the reduction of hypertension.
Follow a diet for hypertension associated with a healthy lifestyle and pharmacological activation of a cycle under the care of a specialist are surely the main road to follow but there are still small steps that can help us even when we are sea or on vacation. Read the rest of this entry »