Some netizens asked, can high blood pressure be cured after losing weight?
Losing weight helps to control blood pressure, but for most patients, losing weight can't cure hypertension.
How does hypertension happen?
Essential hypertension is a polygenic genetic disease, and its incidence is closely related to heredity, which is the result of the joint action of genetic factors and lifestyle factors.
The occurrence of hypertension can be roughly divided into three situations:
There is no family inheritance, but if you have a long-term unhealthy lifestyle, such as high salt, excessive drinking, high fat, high protein diet, obesity, less exercise and so on. You will also suffer from high blood pressure.
It runs in the family, even if we adopt a healthy lifestyle, such as paying attention to diet, exercising more and controlling weight. There is no guarantee that hypertension will not occur. However, a healthy lifestyle will definitely lead to late onset or mild illness.
Family inheritance, long-term unhealthy lifestyle, so it is estimated that it is inevitable to suffer from hypertension.
Improving lifestyle can control hypertension.
For early mild hypertension, hypertension can be completely controlled by non-drug treatment such as salt reduction, weight loss, abstinence from alcohol and exercise (note: hypertension is not cured). However, antihypertensive drugs are still the main treatment for severe and long-term hypertension. However, lifestyle adjustment can reduce the dosage of drugs. Specific measures are:
Reduce salt and limit salt: The World Health Organization recommends that everyone eat it every day.