High blood pressure itself is not terrible, what is terrible is that high blood pressure develops into various hypertensive complications.
The biggest impact of high blood pressure is cerebrovascular disease, and the incidence of cerebrovascular disease in mainland China has always been higher than in other countries. One of the main reasons is that we have too many people with high blood pressure and relatively few people who control it. Then there are more and more patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular accidents caused by high blood pressure.
The "China Stroke Prevention and Control Report" pointed out that every 12 seconds in the mainland, 1 person has a stroke, and every 21 seconds, 1 person dies of stroke.
So how do we prevent high blood pressure from progressing to stroke?
1. Hypertension and cerebrovascular disease
If long-term hypertension is not well controlled, the first to be harmed is the cerebral blood vessels.
Because of long-term hypertension, it will lead to worsening of arteriosclerosis, leading to atherosclerosis. That is to say, the blood vessels are getting harder and harder, and there is garbage in the blood vessels.
When the carotid arteries or cerebral arteries are hardened, cerebrovascular diseases are prone to occur.
1. Cerebral infarction
Plaque rupture is easy to form blood clots, thrombosis will block cerebral blood vessels, that is, the people say cerebral thrombosis, we call cerebral infarction, also known as cerebral infarction.
Studies have shown that although 70% of people with cerebral infarction caused by high blood pressure know that they have high blood pressure, few can reduce their blood pressure to ideal levels. This shows that many people do not know the harm of high blood pressure and care too much about high blood pressure.
"High Blood Pressure, Attention! We note that for every 20 mmHg increase in systolic blood pressure, the risk of cerebral infarction increases by 31%, and for every 10 mmHg increase in diastolic blood pressure, the risk of cerebral infarction increases by 11.2%. This means that the higher the blood pressure, the greater the risk of cerebral infarction. After cerebral infarction occurs, patients are very likely to be left with sequelae such as hemiplegia aphasia, half-body failure, drinking water and coughing, long-term bed rest and so on.
2. Cardiogenic thrombotic cerebral infarction
Long-term hypertension can lead to heart lesions, and hypertension can easily lead to left atrial enlargement, left ventricular hypertrophy, and decreased cardiac function. Atrial fibrillation then occurs.
Atrial fibrillation is prone to blood clots, and if the thrombus is detached, it can lead to cerebral infarction. Nearly 20% of cerebral infarctions are caused by atrial fibrillation, which is so harmful that it increases the risk of stroke by a factor of 5.
3. Cerebral hemorrhage
Long-term hypertension leads to cerebral arteriosclerosis, hardened cerebral blood vessels under high pressure, easy to rupture, cerebral blood vessel rupture is cerebral hemorrhage.
The study found that if the high pressure persisted above 170mmHg compared to people with blood pressure of 120mmHg, our risk of developing intracerebral hemorrhage increased by 11.4 times.
"High Blood Pressure, Attention! Systolic blood pressure increases by 24% for every 20 mmHg increase and 23% for every 10 mmHg increase in diastolic blood pressure. This means that the higher the blood pressure, the greater the risk of cerebral hemorrhage, the cerebral hemorrhage will also cause various sequelae, and the case fatality rate in the acute stage of cerebral hemorrhage is 30% to 40%.
High blood pressure does not hurt or itch in many people's eyes, but cerebral infarction, cerebral hemorrhage, are you afraid? Eating and drinking Lazar life can not take care of themselves everyone is afraid?
Second, since you are afraid, then control blood pressure well and prevent cerebrovascular accidents caused by high blood pressure:
1, first to know whether you have high blood pressure, then you must measure diligently.
2, found that high blood pressure should be formally controlled, first of all, a healthy life, low salt, low oil, low sugar, low-fine grain diet, adhere to exercise, away from tobacco and alcohol, control weight, do not stay up late.
3. Take antihypertensive drugs under the guidance of doctors, and choose long-term drugs as the first choice.
4. People with high blood pressure need to check the carotid artery ultrasound to see if there is a carotid artery plaque, and decide whether to take statins and aspirin to prevent blood clots and prevent cerebral infarction according to the nature and size of the plaque.
5. People with high blood pressure need to check the electrocardiogram to see if there is any arrhythmia. Especially if you have repeated panic, you must check an electrocardiogram to see if there is atrial fibrillation. If there is atrial fibrillation must be treated regularly, anticoagulation is currently recommended, the purpose of anticoagulation is to prevent thrombosis, the global application rate of anticoagulant drugs for atrial fibrillation is about 34.4%, compared with only 13.5% in the mainland. Therefore, cerebral infarction caused by atrial fibrillation has not received everyone's attention.
6. If there is dizziness, numbness, hemiplegia, asymmetric limb strength, drinking water and coughing, walking unsteadily, crooked mouth and eyes, timely medical treatment, through brain CT or brain magnetic resonance to confirm whether a cerebrovascular accident has occurred.
In short, high blood pressure does not look terrible, but once high blood pressure leads to cerebrovascular disease, it is not a joke. Do the above 6 points to prevent cerebral infarction and prevent cerebral hemorrhage!