High blood pressure

High blood pressure

The day was not good for you. A random examination brought unexpectedly and unpleasant news: you have high blood pressure ( hypertension ). Suddenly, all that scattered information about the hypertension you've been receiving for years (and ignored, because your blood pressure was always normal) starts to flood your mind with a flood. You remember phrases like " silent killer ", conversations with friends who informed you that the treatment of hypertension is worse than the disease itself, that they are now less engaged in sex, and spend more time in the toilet after urinating ... You think, in particular, About your friend who had hypertension a few years ago. A joint dinner with him was a torture, because the poor friend actually could not choose anything on the menu. All his favorite dishes seemed to be oversaturated with salt. And the food cooked in his house, even when you nodded and smiled, saying how delicious everything was, had a smack of chewed paper. And now you will lead the same way of life! Well, relax, much of what you were forced to believe in is actually wrong. Hypertension is really a silent killer, but only when its long time is not detected and treated.

Under these circumstances, the endless work of arteries under high pressure speeds up the process of arteriosclerosis anywhere. This can also cause the blood vessels to stretch and burst . So, a person with untreated hypertension is a duck duck for a stroke (blockage or rupture of arteries in the brain), blindness (arteries of the eye become sick, clogged, give bleeding), heart attacks (coronary arteries of the heart undergo arteriosclerosis and clogged), heart failure (heart muscle wears out , Overcoming high blood pressure in the arteries of the body), renal insufficiency (arteries are sclerosed, and the kidneys stop normal work), aortic aneurysms (this main vessel is stretched and eventually bursts, which usually leads to death) and blockages of arteries on the legs At any distance).

Given the latest knowledge about this disease and the availability of drugs to control it, in our time there is every opportunity to get rid of high blood pressure. Diet, weight loss and exercise - sometimes this is enough to normalize high blood pressure. It happens that after a very small and temporary increase in pressure, it normalizes itself. In medical practice, there are more and more patients with high blood pressure, which is not dependent on salt; In other words, they can safely consume a reasonable amount of salt. Most people easily tolerate modern medicines if they are needed. Side-effects intolerable, of which you have heard, is an exaggeration.

Thus, the diagnosis of "high blood pressure" is not the end of the world. But in order to understand its meaning and impact on your lifestyle, you should be familiar with the many patterns of hypertension and know what kind of it has happened to you.

1 Who is vulnerable to hypertension and why
2 Causes of hypertension