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Watch the salt and hypertension
Only 11% of the population concerned and know the salt content of food. This finding emerges from a community survey in Aragon 140 people attended the outpatient primary care, with an average age of 61 years. Of the participants, 53 were hypertensive. The results of this work were presented at the 31st Congress of the Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine (semFYC), which until Friday June 10 is celebrated in the Palacio de Congresos de Zaragoza.
In the opinion of Dr. Luis Vara , coordinator of the Hypertension semFYC, “This data is particularly worrying, especially in the case of hypertensive patients, as one of the mainstays of treatment is to follow a diet low in salt . Also people at risk of developing hypertension may recommend they avoid excessive consumption of salt to prevent its onset. In both situations, therapeutic and preventive education is the key role it can play the family doctor. “
The aim of the survey was to know the degree of awareness among the population through the health center on the salt with food. He also asked about the seasonings to replace it and the risks to health may have a binge. In general, according to women are more familiar with that other seasoning to replace salt, but there were no differences with those who were hypertensive. “This is probably due to the fact that women remain the most often in charge of preparing meals in the home and because, in general, are more interested in issues related to health,” said Dr. Rod. Another point striking is that only 3% are aware of the risks of taking salt in hypertension, being also aware women. Read the rest of this entry »
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Hypertension under control
Cases of hypertension should be treated individually, taking into account the multiplicity of factors surrounding each patient with hypertension, especially in terms of cardiovascular risk presented by the case. As determined in a joint report the World Health Organization and the International Society of Hypertension (ISH) published in 1999 in the Journal of Hypertension.
However, the treatment requires 80 percent of the patients is the same, regardless of whether they are controlled or not. The drug combination is the best way to improve disease control. The combination of verapamil and trandolapril increases the possibility of control by 42 percent compared to monotherapy, although increasing the dose or change of drug.
As suggested by Dr. Antonia Sans, Manresa General Hospital in Barcelona, ”has shown that controlling blood pressure below the limits of 140 and 90 mmHg resulting in a greater benefit to patients, although in the case of diabetics this therapeutic goal should be below 130 and 85 mmHg and in hypertensive patients with proteinuria exceeding 1 g / day below 175 and 75 mmHg. In addition, consideration should be also considered as risk markers to now not taken into account, how are urinary albumin excretion (UAE) and pulse pressure (PP) and heart rate.” 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
The Antihypertensive Reduces Vascular Risk?
What is the most antihypertensive therapy protects the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular system? Have talked about names in cardiology authoritative speakers at the symposium “Optimizing to hypertensive therapy reduces cardiovascular and cerebrovascular risks” of the ESC Congress 2005 which was held in Stockholm.
The antihypertensive reduces vascular risk?
Once again in this authoritative occasion was highlighted as the main goal of treatment of hypertensive disease should not be considered the sole reduction of blood pressure to reach the target values recommended by recent guidelines, but a significant decrease risk of vascular disease of the heart, brain and related systems.
Although the last major international trials have however shown a significant reduction of vascular risk in correlation to a reduction in blood pressure in hypertensive patients, Bryan Williams, professor at the University of Leicester, in the first speech of the symposium, it was initially asked whether all types of medication available today are just as effective, not only in reducing blood pressure, but also in the entity of the reduction in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular risk. Read the rest of this entry »
Hypertension Treatment
What is the best treatment?
Today we have many drugs to treat hypertensive patients. The ideal treatment should be effective, safe, easy to perform, without adverse economic effects. Unfortunately, all these features are hard to find in a single drug, but every day makes more progress in achieving the objective. Modern treatments have demonstrated efficacy of 50 to 70%, and by combining two or more drugs are able to control blood pressure over 90% of cases.
The objective of the consultation is whether the pressure is controlled with treatment, and if you did not take medication is impossible to know. The drugs exert their action during a given time; past it are metabolized and eliminated from the body.
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