Dangers And Complications Of Hypertension
In order to control or to prevent hypertension, you must change your lifestyle, even if you already have a treatment on this condition. A healthy lifestyle may even take to a decrease of closes from your hypertension medication. This is what you should do:
- *Reduce the amount of caffeine
- * In case you manage to control stress, hypertension is also controlled. Some means to achieve that are: the maintenance of good relationships, patience and optimism, the refusal to perform supplementary works, the elimination of negative thoughts and feelings.
- *The visits to the doctor should take place regularly, neither the doctor nor the patient are able to defeat hypertension alone. A close collaboration between the doctor and the patient will get and maintain blood pressure on a normal line.
- * A person can and should monitor his/her blood pressure at home. This will help determine whether the medications are effective or warn the patient of possible problems or complications.
- * Taken properly, medicines can help a person in the battle against high blood pressure. But it takes the doctor's advice in order to determine the proper treatment or the interruption, in case of secondary effects.
- * A healthful life - style is perhaps, the most powerful weapon against this condition
In case signs or symptoms of hypertension are absent, a person may wonder why is it necessary to follow such difficult rules. But the possible consequences of uncontrolled hypertensions are very serious, and they should motivate a person to better care of himself/herself.
The support of his/her family and friends is extremely important for a hypertensive. When the closest persons acknowledge that high blood pressure is a life-threatening condition, they will understand the necessity to give encouragement and support, with your exercise, diet and even medicines.
Possible complication of hypertension
The quantity of blood pumped by the heart and the degree of resistance of a person's arteries to the blood flow represent the blood pressure.
Fluctuations of that blood pressure are normal in 24 hours, because every new heart beat can change something; when you are active, the blood pressure is higher and it lowers when you are resting.
Hypertension represents high blood pressure. It may appear anytime, without announcing its presence by means of signs and symptoms. It is a very frequent disease, which affects 50 million Americans, from which only 70% of them know that they are hypertensives.
Hypertension is closely related to severe health problems, such as heart attack, heart failure, kidney failure, stroke or eye problems.
The possible complications of high blood pressure are:
- * A stroke generated by the blockage or rupture of a blood vessel in the brain.
- * The loss of vision due the thickening, narrowing or tearing of one or more blood vessels of the eyes.
- *The damage produced on the arteries generates atherosclerosis, hard and thick arteries, a condition that favors many complications, including a heart attack. Hypertension may also lead to aneurysm, which is the enlargement or bulging of a blood vessel.
- * Thickness the muscle of the heart by over-solicitation; it is no longer capable in time to satisfy the organism's need for blood and results in heart failure.
- *The metabolic syndrome may appear which is characterized by increased levels of the blood pressure and insulin, high triglycerides, low high - density lipoprotein or cholesterol. The persons affected by hypertension are more at risk to develop one of the above conditions, or even diabetes, stroke or heart disease.
- * It weakens and narrows the kidneys' blood vessels, affecting their normal function.