Hypertension Info
What If My Pressure Rises Too?
That might think high blood pressure sounds as positive, as a sign that blood is flowing rapidly through the blood vessels. Unfortunately, the blood vessels are designed to withstand a certain amount of pressure. A higher pressure may be harmful to the vessels and other body parts.
Here I will mention some body parts that could be affected by high blood pressure:
• Arteries. Excessive blood pressure can break the walls of the arteries, facilitating the formation of plaque and hardening of the arteries. Excessive pressure can also weaken an artery so that part of its encompassing wall outward. If the outer bag will begin to be watered, your blood may flow into your body tissues. If this happen in your brain, called cerebral infarction. If it happens in your heart called aortic aneurysm. Either scenario is so dangerous that can lead to death.
• Heart. If the heart has to work hard just to keep the blood circulation, may tire, weaken and eventually fail. High blood pressure may allow the filling of the arteries in the heart muscle itself, leading to a heart attack.
• Brain. High blood pressure can weaken the arteries in the brain or those that carry blood to it and result in stroke. You can also contribute to another type of stroke caused by blockage of an artery that feeds the brain.
• Kidneys. High blood pressure may promote the filling of the arteries that feed the kidneys, making them less efficient and probably causing kidney failure. And because the kidneys help regulate blood pressure, any damage suffered, could send your blood pressure out of control.
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Cure Hypertension with Potassium
When taking certain drugs to control hypertension removes an extra amount of minerals. Dietary advice to a person suffering from hypertension should be accompanied, in most cases, use of antihypertensive drugs that help lower blood pressure levels. However, most of these drugs carry some side effects that should be recalled.
Drugs that are prescribed to control high blood pressure have on numerous occasions, a diuretic effect, serving to increase production and the volume of urine, allowing a situation to avoid or reduce fluid retention. It is essential to regulate the disposal of liquids, since the heart involves a greater workload because it has to pump a greater volume of blood. It is also important to control salt in food to reduce the risk of water retention and regulate the heart’s workload.
The use of diuretics has, in many cases, negative effects. While used to remove fluid also force the elimination of potassium through the urine in amounts greater than normal. If losses are not offset by an adequate intake, you run the risk of lack. The lack of potassium can cause muscle weakness, tachycardia, thirst and lack of appetite.
To compensate for the loss of potassium due to diuretics is that eating foods rich in minerals such as bananas
To avoid these changes is necessary to follow a varied and balanced diet to ensure sufficient intake of foods rich in minerals such as vegetables and vegetables, legumes, potatoes, fresh and dried fruits, whole grains and nuts. In general, all plant foods are characterized by their richness in potassium.
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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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 »
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
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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What Causes Hypertension?
Hypertension affects roughly 20% of the adult population. Studies in France show that about 7 million of hypertensive subjects. High blood pressure can occur in children, but especially after 50 years as hypertension becomes common. After age 70, a subject on two was hypertensive.
Some population groups are at greater risk of hypertension in subjects with parental hypertension, obese subjects, black subjects, patients with diabetes, patients with kidney disease and patients with artery disease.
What causes hypertension?
In most cases, no cause is found appears when hypertension. Doctors call this illness essential hypertension. In some cases, hypertension may be due to kidney disease, a hyperfunction of the adrenal gland, or excessive rigidity of the arteries.
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What is hypertension?
Blood pressure is the force that allows blood flow to the heart throughout the body.
When the heart contracts, blood pressure is maximum. This value is called systolic pressure, it is the figure measurably higher.
When the heart relaxes between beats, blood pressure is minimal. This value is called diastolic pressure, it is the figure measurably lower.
How blood pressure is measured?
Blood pressure is measured by placing an inflatable cuff around the arm and detecting the systolic and diastolic pressure, or by detection of arterial sounds (auscultatory method) or by detection of arterial oscillations (oscillometric method).
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What is It White Coat Hypertension?
With this name the doctors referred patients with high blood figures in the office but normal when viewed at home. What of “white coat” comes from the distinctive that all doctors and nurses have been in their jobs.
It might seem that this is a rare problem, but in clinical practice is something you find with some regularity, experts say.
The causes are often anxious type. The person who comes to consultation, already knows that he will talk about an important issue for her health. As in any situation “threatening” or generating an alarm, the body releases a series of blood hormones and several substances whose mechanism of action includes the contraction of blood vessels. Consequently, blood pressure rises.
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The diagnosis of hypertension
The diagnosis of hypertension is carried out using an apparatus that measured in a column of mercury, or digital devices. The reading is expressed in mm HG. The normal range and those that represent disease are:
Diastolic pressure below 85 mm HG Normal.
Diastole pressure of 85-89 High normal.
Diastolic pressure of 90-104 mild hypertension.
Diastolic pressure 105-114 moderate hypertension.
Diastolic pressure above 114 Severe hypertension
The above classification is roughly as normal pressure changes according to age.
Systolic pressure below 140 Normal.
Systolic pressure of 140-159 in the limit of Hypertension.
Systolic pressure above 160 systolic hypertension.
To complement the diagnosis must carry out a physical examination and analysis of changes in the retina that indicate high blood pressure, blood tests (to indicate the functioning of the thyroid and adrenal glands) and urine, electrocardiogram, and chest X rays, the above to determine whether hypertension is essential hypertension or secondary type.
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