Do not let hypertension interfere with your heart
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Hypertension is not only high blood pressure, but is a major risk factor would dysfunction of organs such as brain, kidney and heart. If blood pressure getting higher so the risk of damage to the organs of the body increases.
Every year there are 7 million people worldwide died from hypertension. Global health problems associated hypertensive felt worried about and causing health costs are quite high. In 2000 alone nearly 1 billion people worldwide suffer from hypertension. This amount is expected to soar to 1.5 billion in 2025.
Most of the causes of hypertension cannot be known. Various factors associated with genetic and lifestyle, such as a lack of physical activity, intake of salted foods and rich in fat, as well as smoking and drinking alcohol plays a role in this regard.
Most people with hypertension do not feel any complaints. This makes a lot of people ignore the spike in blood pressure. There are still many people around the world are less aware of the threat of hypertension invite concerns World Hypertension League, so the league set every May 17 as World Hypertension Day. It was to arouse public awareness of the importance of preventing global and controlling blood pressure.
Theme of World Hypertension Day at this year is “Know Your Numbers and Target Your Blood Pressure” (Know Your Blood Pressure and Control).
The pressure required to pump the blood flow that carries oxygen, nutrients, and hormones to cells throughout the body. Heart muscle of blood pumped to produce pressure vessels so that blood can flow through the body which, if stretched, its length is estimated to equal to 100,000 kilometers or 2.5 times the distance around the earth.
Blood pressure is always listed with two numbers, egg 120/80. Score 120 is the systolic pressure, i.e. the maximum pressure when the heart contracts the blood vessels. Figures 80 is the diastolic pressure, the minimum blood pressure after the heart contracts. Blood pressure was measured with 1 mm Hg.
At this time the consensus of the experts mentioned hypertension, blood pressure is considered normal if it is in the range below 120/80 mmHg. You will be said to suffer from hypertension when blood pressure 140/90 mmHg and above.
If the higher blood pressure, the higher the risk that will be experienced. Precautions would have triggered the arrival of hypertension experts to make classification pre-hypertension, i.e. systolic blood pressure at 120-139 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure on the value of 80-90 mmHg.
Hypertension is a potential cause various cardiac disorders, such as coronary heart disease, heart failure, until the heart rhythm disturbances. The results of the World Health Organization (WHO) shows, nearly half of cases of heart attack triggered by high blood pressure.
Blood pressure is constantly increasing in the long term would disrupt the function of endothelial cells lining the blood vessel wall. Endothelial dysfunction, initiate the formation of plaque that can narrow the coronary arteries, the vessels that became the path of nutrients and energy for the heart. This resulted in the supply of substances essential for life to be disrupted heart cells. In certain circumstances, elevated blood pressure can crack the coronary plaque, so that blood flow is blocked and cause heart attacks.
People with high blood pressure had twice the risk of coronary heart disease. Risk of heart disease more than doubled if the patient also suffered from high blood pressure diabetes, hypercholesterolemia, and smoking.
Hypertension can also cause heart rhythm disturbances. And the most common is atrial fibrillation, which is a type of heart rhythm that makes the porch irregular heart tremble. These rhythm disturbances can lead to blood clots in the heart chambers.
Treatment of hypertension can now be done more easily if compared with the previous. There are various types of hypertension drugs vary according to conditions that accompany hypertension. Good blood pressure drugs are not always expensive. Moreover, there are generic drugs with relatively affordable price. This is because hypertension is generally accompanied by other risk factors, such as hypercholesterolemia and diabetes.
In the days to come are likely to develop hypertension medication called pharmacokinetic. In this method, drugs are given will be tailored to one’s response genes. But the drug will be ineffective if not accompanied by a healthy lifestyle, which is eating low fat, low salt, high fiber, exercise regularly, and quitting smoking.
