Usually after we have measured blood pressure in the hospital, the doctor will write two values on the list, separated by a slash in the middle, so what do these two values mean? The first number is high pressure (in medical terms, systolic blood pressure, which refers to the pressure within the arterial vessels when the heart contracts), and the number in the back is low pressure (the medical term is called diastolic pressure, which refers to the pressure inside the arteries during cardiac diastolic). Whether it is high pressure, high pressure, or high pressure, or both, we call it hypertension, and for young or middle-aged people, if you have high blood pressure, it is likely to manifest as low pressure. Here is to explain the common low pressure and high causes and countermeasures.
What are the reasons for low pressure and high pressure?
In the absence of any influencing factors, we can diagnose low pressure and high pressure by measuring diastolic ≥ 90 mmHg 3 times or more on different days. Because the high diastolic blood pressure is mostly due to the viscous blood during cardiac diastolic, the peripheral vascular resistance of the arteries increases, the spasm of the arterioles caused by insufficient blood oxygen content, a small number of factors may be the patient has acute glomerulonephritis or pheochromocytoma, occasional low pressure may be due to excessive nervousness, emotional agitation, the heart rate is too fast to cause the diastolic period is too short, the heart is not completely diastolic caused by the increase in blood volume remaining in the blood vessels, and the increase in blood pressure. Therefore, low pressure and high pressure are commonly found in obese young and middle-aged people who do not like to exercise, patients with secondary hypertension and urban people with irregular lifestyles or mental stress.
Among them, obesity with severe snoring also needs special vigilance, because such people may suffer from sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome, patients sometimes stop breathing in sleep sleep disorders, when a person in sleep upper airway narrows or collapses, resulting in thunder, apnea, snoring interruption phenomenon, it is possible to suffer from sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome. Studies have shown that sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome may lead to headache, dizziness, drowsiness, and memory loss; hypertension (low pressure and high symptoms are common), and the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases is increased.
What about low pressure and high pressure?
For the above common causes, we mainly have the following 3 methods:
(1) The first trick: weight loss
Weight loss is the most immediate for obese patients, whether you are through exercise fat loss or diet weight loss, can effectively reduce the blood lipid content, reduce vascular resistance, reduce diastolic pressure, which jogging, walking, swimming, low-salt low-fat diet, eat more potassium-rich foods (such as peanuts, fish, beans, shiitake mushrooms, etc.) can achieve good results.
(2) The second trick: emotional management
The pace of modern life is very fast, many urban people have great mental pressure, nowhere to solve, will choose to stay up late to work or tobacco, alcohol and coffee to refresh the mind, do not know that these habitual behaviors in daily life have become the invisible killer of our health, so adjusting life schedules, learning emotional management is very important, whenever we are irritable, stress when the time to choose some entertainment, such as listening to light music, practicing yoga and other relaxation mood, our low pressure will slowly come down.
(4) The third trick; antihypertensive drugs
If the above 2 tricks do not control the low pressure very well, we can choose pry or sartan drugs to control under the guidance of a doctor. Existing drugs do not only reduce the pressure, will be high pressure and low pressure together, for the sake of safety, be sure to choose the right drug under the guidance of a specialist.
summary
In the early stage of diagnosing hypertension, sometimes it is not necessary to take medicine immediately, and it may be reduced by strengthening exercise, adjusting diet structure, controlling weight, managing emotions, etc. At this time, we should try to do it, after all, we can not take medicine as much as possible. However, if the above non-drug methods are still ineffective after adhering to it, or the doctor's comprehensive physical examination believes that it is necessary to take medicine immediately, then we still need to cooperate with the doctor's plan, standardize the medication, and control blood pressure, in order to prevent the body organs from being damaged by hypertension and maintain a healthy state.
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