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Hypertension
Blood pressure is simply the amount of force exerted when the blood pushing against blood vessel walls. High blood pressure, or hypertension, is when there is too much pressure on vessel walls, which makes the heart work too hard to push blood through the arteries narrower. Over time, high blood pressure weakens the heart and causes hardening of the walls of the arteries, making them weaker and more susceptible to injury. Often, high blood pressure has no symptoms of any kind, but this damage to blood vessels or the heart can cause stroke, heart failure, myocardial infarction, renal failure, and loss of vision. This is why hypertension has the infamous nickname “the silent murderer” ( 1 ).
Have you heard that reducing sodium can lower blood pressure? Well, that’s true for many people ( 2 )! Sodium is found in many foods in small amounts but constitutes about 40% of table salt. It is necessary for the body in very small amounts, but most Americans eat too much. So how sodium increases blood pressure?
Sodium is always in solution in the body, so it passes through the digestive tract, blood vessels, it carries fluid. Normally, the vessels are quite elastic, as the walls of a balloon. However, excess fluid in sodium increases blood volume. As if we added water to a balloon, this makes the diameter of the vessels to stretch and makes the vessel wall is tense with the pressure. Over time, this increased pressure within the arteries can cause hardening of the walls of the arteries and lead to permanent damage.
Diet for Hypertension
Hypertension or high blood pressure has become so large in developed countries is considered a major public health problems. If this disease is not treated in time causes damage to the cardiovascular system. The good news is that hopefully we can prevent and control it.
Several years ago researchers, concerned with reducing the damage caused by the increased pressure created a diet plan to observe the effects of food and some minerals in reducing high blood pressure. This plan, which initially had an experimental character was called DASH diet, which stands for Dietary Approaches to English to Stop Hypertension (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension).
The DASH diet is characterized by high in fiber, made the recommendation for fruit and vegetables a day recommended 5 servings than healthy people, taking care to include minerals such as potassium, magnesium and calcium. The inclusion of nuts and other grains, reducing animal fats, increased consumption of poultry and fish as well as the decrease in consumption of sugar and sugary drinks, they give you the necessary elements to keep your heart healthy.
The researchers found that giving three diets: a typical American diet, a diet similar to American but rich in fruits and vegetables and the DASH diet, the people who had provided the last two diets reduced blood pressure significantly, but above all the pressure reduction was greater in those receiving the DASH diet. Read the rest of this entry »
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Learn to control your high blood pressure
How can you control high blood pressure?
For most people, the goal is to reduce your blood pressure below 140/90 mm Hg. If you have diabetes or kidney disease, the goal is below 130/80.
If your blood pressure is higher than normal, it can return to regularly without having to take medication, it is possible that you should only lose weight, change your diet and exercising (prehypertension). If there is also diabetes, may be needed further treatment.
If changes in lifestyle do not reduce blood pressure enough, your doctor may prescribe medication. Some people have to take two or more to control the blood pressure down to normal.
When you start taking this medicine is important to:
Take the medication regularly, exactly as you prescribed.
Report immediately to your doctor about any side effect.
Monitoring schedule regular visits with your doctor. Read the rest of this entry »
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 and Herbs
Some patients with high blood pressure rely on Medicinal Plants with hypotensive properties to try to control. But plants are not always beneficial, especially when taken while other antihypertensive drugs. Since lower blood pressure, have a diuretic effect and hypotensive action, but before taking it you should consult your doctor.
Resorting to the plants to lower blood pressure can generate two types of problems. Some people of a certain age who are overweight take diuretic plants in order to lose weight and detoxify the body, but they can mix plants and diuretic drugs without being aware. Diuretics are olive leaf fasting, horsetail, the olmaria or goldenrod.