What should we know about high blood pressure?
The objective of this post is to raise awareness about a topic as important as high blood pressure.
What is hypertension?
It’s a disorder characterized by the elevation of blood pressure levels above the values considered normal, which increases the risk of cardiovascular events (stroke, heart attack) and target organ damage (kidney, heart and eyes).
How is hypertension diagnosed?
Blood pressure is expressed with two measures: systolic blood pressure (which is the first figure in the report) and diastolic blood pressure (the second figure). So, for example, if we say that the blood pressure is at 110/70 mmHg, 110 corresponds to the systolic pressure and 70 to the diastolic pressure.
High blood pressure, although it often does not produce symptoms (When they occur, the most common are headache, dizziness and blurred vision), is easy to detect because it is only necessary to take the blood pressure values to diagnose it.
Which are the normal blood pressure values?
Recently (Guidelines of November 2017) the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association and 9 other organizations established new blood pressure values, remaining as described below:
-Normal blood pressure: <120 / <80 mmHg
-Elevated blood pressure : 120-129 / <80 mmHg
-Stage 1 hypertension: 130-139 / 80-89 mmHg
-Stage 2 hypertension:> 140 /> 90 mmHg
What can I do to keep my blood pressure under control?
- Maintain a healthy diet and reduce salt intake: try to consume lean meats, chicken without skin, fruits, vegetables, dairy, grains, fish, seeds and nuts. Remember that salt contains sodium and it retains fluid, which causes an additional burden on the heart. One way to reduce your consumption is to decrease canned, packaged or pre-manufactured foods. Be careful with some very salty cheeses, seafood, pickles, soups.
- Practice regular physical activity: aerobic physical activity of moderate intensity is recommended, ideally 30 minutes a day at least 5 days a week.
- Control weight: in patients with obesity the prevalence of high blood pressure is higher. Even a small decrease in weight prevents hypertension and in those hypertensive patients the values decrease. A weight reduction of 10% causes the systolic blood pressure to fall by 5 mmHg.
- Manage stress, since it can raise the pressure temporarily thanks to certain hormones such as adrenaline and cortisol that can cause tachycardia and vasoconstriction.
- Avoid the consumption of cigarettes and excess of alcohol and coffee.
- Comply with the medications prescribed by the doctor.
You can ask any question in the comments.
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Eleyda, a nicely thought out post, structured in a very readable manner. Thanks.
I happen to disagree on some of what you said, but I don't feel this is the time to go into my reasons, but I will say that I have lived long enough to see medical opinions change again and again.
As for salt, since you stress the dangers it represents, I think that you should add that readers must beware of using salt with anti-caking agent, which contains alumi (destroys brain cells). Pure sea salt has worked for us for thousands of years and still is the best.
Regards
Hi @arthur.grafo, how nice that you liked the post, you are right, sometimes in medicine things change from time to time, there has been a lot of controversy with the new values established for high blood pressure, and I suppose that is what you don't agree with...
Actually, I am more concerned about the fact that medicines doctors perscribed for it have turned out to be damaging to us (some have been banned this last year), so I look for natural ways to treat myself.
For instance, I suffered, but I was told to try eating celery (raw in salad and cooked in my food). I eat at least one stick a day. I also use at least one lemon a day so as to thin down my blood, so no cold feet in winter now.
I also took the opposite route from that which is prescribed by our doctors: I avoid all sodas; I avoid all products labelled 'lean' or 'low fat'. I never eat margarine, only real butter. I stopped eating potatoes and eat yams (sweet potatoes) which are not (yet) MGO - if they get to it, I'll move on to cassava.
An important one is milk. So many people have become lactose intolerant and the companies/supermarkets keep pushing people to use low or no fat! Those are which cause most of the problems. I get my milk from a farm and it is not homogenised (this has nothing to do with killing bacteria), it is a cosmetic marketing tool - homogenising milk means that the milk and cream do not separate, so you do not get a layer of cream at the top. If you did, you would see that the 'full cream milk' has almost no cream (about 3 to 5%).
Since changing back to farm milk, my chronic sinus problem, which drove me crazy each night, has subsided. As for the cream, has it made me fatter? No.
Back to homogenised: this means that the milk is treated so violently that the molecus are broken into small molecules which your body does not recognise, so it is sent to become fat. My body uses the cream (which is more like 15%) without me putting on even one kilo.
All fat-free, lean, low-fat etc, they fatten you. Your body senses the lack of nutrition so it goes into panic mode and stores all it can as fat so as to see you through the lean years. Aslo, why use lean meat, but then add GMO cooking oils (Canola being the most damaging), I prefer to let the fat of the meat be the oil I use.
There are many documentaries available on these subjects, with references to laboratory notes, so please check it out. I owned a creche for toddlers and mine was one of the few that I know of, last year, who had no fat kids, no diabetics and they were all healthy and full of energy. Feeding them the right way ate up all my profits and I had to close, but I am glad I did it, for their parents tell me they are still trying to stick to the rules I gave them.
Well, there are points that I agree with and others where I do not:
Thanks for your comment, I love hearing opinions and discussing...