Showing posts with label hypertension. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hypertension. Show all posts

8/10/2010

The best prevention for hypertension


To avoid problems in cognitive functioning, hypertensive patients should be treated since the beginning of the disease.
Hypertension may cause cognitive functions reduce the amount of blood flow to different organs. This occurs over a period of between 7 and 20 Aryans. Symptoms may be triggered (memory and concentration problems) from 75 years as a result, 70 percent of older hypertensive patients should be admitted for observation. Medical specialists in hypertension and cardiologists gathered at the Congress of the European Society of Hypertension to assess cognitive impairment as a result of this disease. The experts conducted a study with nearly 1000 hypertensive patients with an average age of 78.

They were analyzed by specialists in neurology and psychology, and the results showed that 53 percent of patients who continued treatment step had less effect on cognitive functions. In conclusion, all said they found the most effective solution was to make the treatment of hypertension since the early signs and thus prevent this result in older adults. According bs specialists, per 1000 patients treated for high blood pressure five years, will prevent at least 20 people come to dementia.

5/26/2009

Hypertension in Pregnancy

Hypertension is an abnormal increase in blood pressure. Headaches, dizziness and sometimes blurred vision crisis often some of its symptoms. This increase is linked to genetic factors as stress and salt consumption.

But be careful, in any case it is a condition that may represent the same risk that the vascular snuff, alcohol, high cholesterol or diabetes. In the period of pregnancy, low blood pressure a little, whether on the contrary, it increases, poses a risk to the mother and the baby and be very strict controls.

2/03/2009

Hypertension in Pregnancy

Ten per cent of women have high blood pressure in pregnancy, changes that may occur, among other conditions, early delivery, low birth weight and fetal mortality. Hypertension more common in pregnancy as part of the syndrome called "preeclampsia".

Usually occurs after 20 weeks and is accompanied by proteinuria (presence of albumin in the urine) and high uric acid. Affected, especially women who expect their first child, especially the very young or older than 35 years. One form of preeclampsia, in which there is only hypertension and also show that after 20 weeks. typically occurs in women with advanced age and / or slightly obese.

Regarding the treatment, contrary to what was indicated before, it is very important that women do not abandon completely the salt. When blood pressure is slightly elevated, just bed rest to decrease.
However, when the minimum or diastolic 100 mm Hg and no other symptoms, such as fighting drugs methyldopa, a drug that does not produce malformations in the baby. It is appropriate to the intern when pregnant, in addition to 100 mm Hg at least, has proteinuria.

10/10/2008

Vegetables are good for health

Take vegetables ...
Because their health will appreciate. Leafy vegetables contain bullterrieringlesframasbulls acid, which is abundant especially in Swiss and spinach, and to a lesser degree in endive and lettuce. Tomatoes, carrots, spinach and kale provide carotenes that, as well as give them their color, they act as provitamin A, micro-nutrient that the liver stores and converted into vitamin A when the body needs it.

The phenolic compounds of the vegetables are antipyretics, or that lower fever, painkillers and anti-inflammatory drugs. They also act as antioxidants, which block the harmful effect of radicals
free, molecules that increase the risk of genetic abnormalities in cells that renew the body, such as the skin and intestine.

This favors the appearance of tumors and lowers the functionality of the cells young, one of the symptoms of aging cells. Furthermore, the antioxidants blocked the free radicals that modify the bad cholesterol (LDL-C). which leaves the specter of suffering heart attacks in heart and brain-vascular accident.
Other virtues. Vegetables prevent, in addition, certain cancers, cataracts, osteoporosis and hypertension.

Eye with cabbage.
These cruciferous bociógenos contain compounds that, apart from giving them their pungent flavor and aroma typical block the absorption and utilization of iodine, a situation that impedes the activity of the thyroid gland.

These compounds are produced to crush or eat raw cabbage, which releases an enzyme. However, this effect is avoided when cooking cabbage. Still, it is recommended not to eat normally this cruciferous if hypothyroidism.

10/06/2008

Mothers in physical form

Physical exercise is highly recommended for pregnant women, but it must be the gynecologist who, in each case, authorize the practice of one or another activity.
The exercise stimulates circulation and oxygenation of the fetus; favors the stabilization hormone, helps eliminate toxins, prevents high blood pressure, prevent bone loss and bone elevates the tone of the abdominal muscles.

In general, if the woman did sport before pregnancy, there is no objection to continue practicing, except for some of the risky: horseback riding, martial arts, athletics, gymnastics with appliances, skiing (snow and water) Rowing, aerobics, basketball, tennis, paddle ... and all those who require an effort too violent.

The exercises best suited to women during pregnancy are walking a slight step, not wearied and, most especially, swimming. Both can practice during the nine months and are very beneficial.

The first improves circulation and prevents varicose veins and phlebitis, and the second exercise the muscles of the abdomen, arms and legs. If the doctor does not think otherwise, you can also run smoothly for walking or cycling, but only during the first few months.

9/29/2008

How to prevent a heart attack

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in the world after 35 years. Within these, acute myocardial infarction occupies a prominent place.

We offer advice to the principal, since childhood, can prevent this serious problem.

- Childhood obesity for example, must be treated with equal or greater concern than in adults. Like them, is also seeing children in cases of Type II diabetes, cholesterol and hypertension. Not corrected them in due course, there will be havoc on the future of small.
Today we are facing a global epidemic of obesity, and people have not taken a real awareness about the seriousness of this matter.
With the proper treatment of obesity, most of the time everything is normalized, while not necessary to continue with many of the medications.

- Hypertension is another important point. Eating a healthy and proper diets in which the predominant vegetable and fruits, milk, lean red or white meat, water, and the practice of aerobic exercise (such as walking, swimming or biking), favored treatment asymptomatic disease.

- Diabetes. We refer to the non-insulin dependent diabetes, or adult, which we began to see from the approximately 50 years of age, and also associated with obesity.
The pancreas is an organ that secretes a hormone called insulin, to which among other things, encourages the entry of carbohydrates to the body's cells. But the capital of insulin that owns the pancreas is not infinite and over time can manifest itself with impaired fasting glycemia, helping to determine a state of pre-diabetes or insulin resistance.
This is due to make a proper diet and of course, exercise.

- Cholesterol. The high cholesterol levels, is without doubt one of the most terrible risk factors. Such as diabetes, but is seen in obese patients, can also be seen in patients with normal weight or thin people on. Here is a basic diet low in fat and physical exercise, in addition to the medication which, of course, provide the doctor.

- Smoking is another factor contributing to this problem. Smoking causes repeated increases in blood pressure. Nicotine is vasoconstriction and adrenergic stimulant.
Carbon monoxide causes endothelial dysfunction (this is in the inner layer of the arteries) smoking antagonisa the therapeutic effect of some antihypertensive drugs.

9/25/2008

Hypertension and cholesterol hereditary?

• HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE AND CHOLESTEROL
A hereditary problem?
According to recent published studies, 50 percent of adults with hypertension also have elevated cholesterol numbers. Both disorders, which are two important risk factors for cardiovascular disease have a genetic component.

That is why one wonders if the children of those who suffer (between 25 and 30 percent of the population) also may be affected. For this reason, the children of people who have suffered an ischemic coronary problems or cerebral hemorrhage, or suffering from some of these two risk factors, should systematically medirles blood pressure and lipids.

However, the most important in preventing these disorders is to prevent children fattened too.

9/15/2008

Physical activity combats hypertension

It is not a novelty. Indeed, is already a fact well proven. The cardiofitness, namely physical exercise can push up the performance of the cardiovascular system, exerts beneficial effects in hypertension.

And in mild forms, with pressure values somewhat higher than 140/90, which doctors define as "frontier" may even blood pressure returned to normal values, without having to take pills. Numerous studies have shown that aerobic exercise characteristic of cardiofitness causes a decrease in blood pressure maximum and minimum sleep.

The mechanisms by which this effect occurs are partially known. For example, aerobic activity determines an increase of the capillary network of muscles in the periphery: in this way the same blood flow is distributed in a "tree" bigger and low pressure. Secondly, sport moderate influence on the system of endocrine glands.

What does? Decreases catecholamines, stress hormones that cause the narrowing of blood vessels peripherals, play an important role in the onset of hypertension. However, while making sport benefits the tension, it is essential to choose the appropriate discipline, and to establish accurately the intensity, frequency and duration of effort.

The physical activities more suited to normalize the pressure are jogging, race, swimming, running, walking, cycling and cross-country skiing. And when, during the winter, cardiofitness exercises must be conducted indoors, in the gym is available a wide range of appliances such as treadmills, exercise bikes and step.

Semaphore red, however, for sports that involve anaerobic efforts (as in the shorter sprint distances, the shot put and body building). In any case, to obtain the maximum benefit, exercise should dosificarse with extreme caution, as if it were a drug, because it can be
dangerous, a kind of double-edged sword, if performed without judgement.

The program of physical activity, for example, may include 40 or 50 minutes of training, three or four times a week. What pace should continue? Surely we must avoid the high intensities. The exercises are the most effective light. Experts agree that, ideally, consider keeping the heart beats 60% or 70% of the maximum heart rate, better determined in laboratory with a traditional stress test, rather than with the classic formula '220 - age. "

The most rational and safe to control the intensity of physical activity to which we are dedicating Pulsómetro is to make use of. This device provides a continuous and reliable information about the heart's response during the effort, avoiding the risk of working at levels of heart rate too high regarding the scheduled by the cardiologist.

The Pulsómetro is a perfect guide when it should be very accurately assess performance and maintain control under the regime of training. It also allows control the heart rate and alerts with programmable alarms when they are exceeding the preset values.

8/05/2008

Being a housewife increases the weight

Being all day without stopping, working, addressing the house, the sons and purchases, does not guarantee not to fall into networks sedentary lifestyle, an evil that every day affects more people in developed countries and especially in urban areas.

The first risk of physical inactivity, obesity itself is a problem that is increasingly affecting much housewives, among other kinds of occupations.

This situation, predisposes a number of pathological processes, including diabetes, hypertension and arteriosclerosis.

In conducting physical exercise, this kind of preventable problems than varices, hypertension, arthritis, osteoporosis, constipation, premature aging of the skin, and heart attacks.

Therefore, half an hour of physical exercise every day, helps prevent these disorders. Today, one need not go to the gym for exercise. There are very accessible appliances that occupy very little place in the houses, as well as guides exercises that are emitted in different media.

7/24/2008

Diet of pregnant hypertensive

There, as in the case of diabetes, hypertension prior to pregnancy and other "induced" by him (toxemia hypertensive or pre-eclampsia).

In either case, the dietary supplement is only a general therapeutic measures, which usually consist of rest and the administration of antihypertensive drugs allowed during pregnancy.

Just as diuretics are contraindicated by the imbalances that determines its use in the fetus, nor salt should be excluded entirely from the diet, since none of these measures can prevent the aggravation of a poorly controlled hypertension.
It shows all natural foods, which should not be added to table salt, prioritize the use of those with low sodium in his replacement.

In no way is totally exclude foods containing sodium in its composition, as a minimum contribution is even necessary.
The bread and certain mineral waters have a high sodium content, as well as cold cuts, canned (including candy), pizzas and sausages.

If you want to further reduce calorie intake, the sugar substitute that can be used is the aspartano or pure saccharine, as cyclamates are always combined in the form of sodium cyclamate.

Hypertension in a pregnant woman

None of this has to do with eclampsia, real disease of pregnancy, which could well-defined scientific-licensed as "intolerance" to the progression of it. Among its complications, the pre-clampsia (and of course greater eclampsia) is characterized by high blood pressure, which would be responsible-in this case-of headaches.

First, the common ones, have no consequences arising from that same pain. Those who are due to hypertension, should alert us that something is wrong. It is easy to distinguish: the headaches of eclampsia are very intense and appear in the third trimester of pregnancy, in situations where, typically, there were no headaches at the beginning. The hormones are more intense at the beginning of pregnancy and tend to be better tolerated and softer along the same.

The possible treatment during pregnancy is reduced to facilitate the evacuation of the gallbladder (antispasmodic) and the administration of aspirin, except that the latter can not be ingested in the form indiscriminate or permanently.
Before resorting to it, we should always consult with the obstetrician.

7/04/2008

Hypertension

It increases from 40 following an increase of peripheral vascular resistance and some unhealthy habits: salt in the diet, consumption of snuff and alcohol ...

Your best bet because you are always on time if you want to achieve a better lifestyle is starting to consume more fruits and vegetables.

5/06/2008

Infusions to control the hypertension

Not doubt that this illness is one of the most important enemies in the health that affect more and more men and women fits. In her they impact the rich power supply fundamentally in fat and sodium, the lifestyle, (stress, physical and other activity) the psychic states (anxiety, depression, nervous asthma, tachycardia, etc.), certain illnesses (as arteriosclerosis, colesterolemia, renal bad operation), and genetic factors.

As the hypertension it is dangerous for the arteries and you harness cardiac serious difficulties, you are fundamental to have it low control. Besides the care of the diet, we can help to maintain a normal pressure through infusions of grass that lack all continuous.

The treatment with grass is actual long term and you are specially suitable for light hypertension.

To prepare the infusions, you will follow these steps:

If what you need is to download the pressure, you blend in parts same olive leaves, mistletoe and amber hawthorn. Then mixture for each cup of tea, a soup spoonful of the mixture. Lastly, strain it and you ingest two cups per day, one in you fast and the other one at night.

Now, if what you need is to regulate the pressure, you blend 25 grams of linden flowers, hawthorn, amber and Chinese chrysanthemum, together with 20 grams of achillea. Then it boils during 3 minutes a spoonful of dessert of the mixture for cup of water. Put it in rest 10 minutes more and you drink this infusion warm three times a day, after the foods and in mid afternoon.

Other general options are:

- To cook a handful of mulberry sheets between liter of water during 10 minutes. When you have cooled down, to strain and to take several vessels a day.
- If the origin of the high pressure is psychic, you prove with infusions made with Melisa, Pasiflora and Garden heliotrope, since for your sedative effect, they stabilize the nervous system.
- Queue of Horse and Arenaria Rubra is two diruetic indicated grass when you are retention of liquids. They should be alternated. Contrary to what happen with the chemical diuretics, they don't produce loss of minerals neither decompensation.

4/27/2008

Hypertension. Ways to limit the usage of sodium

According to the experts, the sodium (causing fundamental of the hypertension), almost enters to the diet without we notice it through the processed foods. Next, we propose you some advice to keep in mind.

- To modify the habit of adding salt to the foods during or after the cooking.

- To privilege the usage of fruits and fresh vegetables.

- To read the labels of breads and other packaged products well and to buy those "first floor in sodium."

- If you drink mineral water, to choose those that contain less than 10 mg for liter.

- To have caution since with the "dietetic" products this classification is not synonymous of "free of sodium."

- You are important to carry out medical queries of prevention instead of hoping we suffer a problem cardiológico.

But... where is the salt?

The human beings need certain quantity of salt to maintain a normal operation of the organism; but this dose is covered with the contribution of water and natural foods. Let us see some examples:

1 apple = 1 mg of sodium

1 slice of bread = 130 mg of sodium

90 g of chicken to the oven = 86 mg of sodium

90 g of fried chicken = 500 mg of sodium

1 spoonful of sauce of soy = 1.330 mg of sodium

1 spoonful of salt = 2.130 mg of sodium

12/18/2007

Arterial Hypertension

Hypertension means an elevation of the arterial pressure above the normal borders. This already outlines a first problem: to define these borders. The arterial pressure varies with the age, and in oneself individual can oscillate in any moment due to multiple phenomena: emotion, cold, physical activity, etc. A border wild maximum of 145 mm of mercury usually accepts (Hg.) for the systolic pressure and of 90 mm of Hg. for the diastolic pressure under idle conditions.

Diverse apparatuses exist, named esfigmomanómetros, for the determination of the arterial pressure. They consist on a bag rubber and cloth and in armlet form that is arranged around the arm or leg. This bag is wired to a gauge that measures the variances of the pressure of the interior of that. When the pressure inside the bag overcomes to the pressure inside the artery, the step of blood is discontinued by the same one and the pulse disappears beyond the point of application of the pipe nipple. By means of the observation of the keystrokes or the auscultation with a stethoscope, the moment can be determined in that passes blood again as it is made descend the pressure inside the pipe nipple. The figure of pressure at this time corresponds to the systolic pressure or maxim. The diastolic pressure or minimum it is recognized by auscultation and it corresponds to the moment in that he/she stops to be auscultated the pulse to be made the continuing flow. The arterial pressure is expressed in a mm of mercury.

From the etiologic point of view, that is to say, as for the lawsuit of the elevation of the arterial pressure, they are distinguished do groups: the main or primary hypertension, of unknown lawsuit, and the secondary hypertension to diverse illnesses.

The arterial hypertension is a discovery they frequent the clinic. The frequency of this affection increases with the age, near 80 percent of the hipertensos it is between the 40 and 70 years. Until the 40 years, the man has bigger trend that the woman to be affection of hypertension; above the 40, the status is invested. Of the 80 to 85 percent of all the cases, the hypertension can be considered as main. In this an illness that seems to be related with the progress of the civilization, being strange in the asiatic and African countries. But it is not related with he/she prays her, since among the blacks of United States of North America it is more frequent than among the white population.