As we all know, hypertension is the most important risk factor of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, which is closely related to myocardial infarction, coronary heart disease and stroke. At the same time, hypertension is also one of the risk factors of diabetic nephropathy and renal failure. Therefore, as long as it is diagnosed as hypertension, it is necessary to closely cooperate with doctors for treatment. If you don't want to be discovered by complications in the future, patients with hypertension should persistently ensure the following five points:
1, weight control: hypertension itself is a chronic disease, which can be prevented and controlled. According to clinical data, long-term overweight and obesity are the main factors causing hypertension. This is mainly related to the disorder of diet structure, excessive working pressure of capillaries, metabolic disorder and other factors. Therefore, if patients with hypertension are suffering from obesity, they need to actively control their weight and lose weight from today. When their weight returns to the normal standard, blood pressure control will become easier.
2, light diet: The incidence of hypertension in China is often high, which is closely related to diet. Long-term intake of foods with high salt content, such as adding a lot of salt and seasonings when cooking, eating pickled foods frequently, producing and processing meat foods, etc., will lead to excessive salt intake, and salt will precipitate sodium ions and chloride ions in the body.
Once sodium ion exceeds the limit of renal function metabolism, it will develop into hypokalemia and osmotic pressure imbalance. Therefore, patients with hypertension should choose a light diet, and choose the production and processing methods of ingredients such as blanching and steaming as much as possible to maintain the original flavor of ingredients. The daily intake of acetate should be less than 5g;
3, exercise regulation: there are two main benefits of exercise for patients with hypertension. The first is to consume a lot of human fat in the body and slowly lose weight. Secondly, exercise can adjust the system software such as hypothalamus, pituitary gland and adrenaline, and reduce the metabolism of growth hormone that stimulates vasospasm. At the same time, exercise can also enlarge peripheral blood vessels, which is beneficial to blood pressure control. Therefore, patients with hypertension should exercise up and down at least 3-5 times a week for at least 30min minutes each time.
4. Life adjustment: People's 24-hour blood pressure is not static, it presents a regular change, and will be affected by various factors, leading to a transient increase in blood pressure, which involves strong ups and downs of mentality, long-term staying up late and poor rest, smoking and drinking. Therefore, patients with hypertension should avoid this risk factor in their daily life, maintain adequate and periodic sleep quality, maintain a cheerful and open-minded psychological state, and avoid the harm of alcohol and tobacco.
5. antihypertensive drugs: in fact, for patients with essential hypertension, especially those who have progressed to moderate levels, the adjustment of diet is only an auxiliary control method. To keep blood pressure stable in an all-round way, the most indispensable thing is to choose antihypertensive drugs that suit you according to the doctor's advice. If a antihypertensive drug does not lower blood pressure, patients need to cooperate with various drugs to control it, so that it can lower blood pressure and stabilize it.
Finally, remind everyone that hypertension is a long-term or even lifelong disease, and the role of antihypertensive drugs is only to temporarily control blood pressure. Therefore, once you start taking antihypertensive drugs, you need to have excellent medication compliance, and you need to monitor and follow up your blood pressure for a long time to reduce the chances of complications in the middle and late stages.