How many people know what their blood pressure is, or how much their blood pressure is abnormal? According to the survey, less than a quarter of people can accurately answer this question.
Speaking of blood pressure, we all know that blood pressure is divided into hypertension, hypotension, and normal blood pressure. Under normal circumstances, people's blood pressure is normal, and the body is also in a healthy state. And low blood pressure and high blood pressure are not good for the body, let's talk about high blood pressure today.
How much is blood pressure considered high blood pressure?
Hypertension generally refers to blood pressure exceeding 140/90mmHg, beyond this value, the blood in the body will change, the blood will become viscous, the blood vessels will contract, and the blood circulation will slow down. If the blood pressure in the body continues to rise and does not fall, it will affect the health of the body and make people feel very uncomfortable.
Why are more and more people suffering from high blood pressure now?
In fact, the reason why so many people now suffer from high blood pressure is related to everyone's usual habits such as life, diet, work and rest. Now the living conditions are good, eating is also very rich, big fish and big meat, eating sea and drinking, singing at night, sedentary and not exercising, etc., these are the factors that cause blood pressure to rise.
What can I conclude that I have high blood pressure?
Many people measure their blood pressure for the first time and find that their blood pressure is high, and they think that they are already high blood pressure. This is not the case, and the diagnosis of hypertension cannot be achieved only once. Because, sleep is not good at night, the mood is not moving, or walking fast, etc., at this time to measure blood pressure, it is possible to measure the blood pressure is the value of hypertension.
Want to diagnose hypertension, people should be in a "awake" state, at least to ensure that they rest well, emotional stability, if you walk to measure blood pressure, to rest for ten minutes and then measure blood pressure, and to take the standard measurement method, at least 3 times non-daily blood pressure measurement, if the value reaches or exceeds systolic blood pressure 140mmHg and /or diastolic blood pressure 90mmHg, this time can be diagnosed as hypertension.
High blood pressure is generally measured by instruments, but if your body appears with these "signals", it may also be that your blood pressure is high, and you must diagnose it in time.
1. Dizziness and headache, often tinnitus
2. Blurred vision, eye fatigue
3. Chest tightness, chest pain, shortness of breath
4. Numb limbs, cold hands and feet
If you are diagnosed with high blood pressure, what can you do to help stabilize your blood pressure?
To keep moving
There are many factors that cause blood pressure, obesity is one of them, obese people have a serious accumulation of fat in the body, and people can consume excess fat in the body when exercising, so that blood pressure can be stabilized.
It is recommended that you can develop exercise methods according to your physical condition, and the exercise methods that stabilize blood pressure are jogging, brisk walking, swimming, baduanjin, cycling, yoga and so on. If the body does not allow it, it is also possible to simply take a walk.
Eat more foods that are conducive to blood pressure stabilization and drink more antihypertensive tea
There are many foods in life that are conducive to stabilizing blood pressure, such as onions, garlic, celery, etc., these foods are rich in nutrients, and contain substances that stabilize blood pressure, often eat these foods, to a certain extent, can help lower blood pressure.
Maintain a daily salt intake
Many people like heavy taste food, heavy taste food contains high salt content, intake of too much sodium ion, increase the burden on the kidneys, resulting in rising blood pressure. Therefore, in order to stabilize blood pressure, the daily intake of salt content should not be too much, should be controlled at about 5 grams.
If you suffer from hypertension, in addition to following the doctor's advice and using drugs rationally, you also need to do the above things in your life, which can effectively improve the quality of life and better stabilize blood pressure.
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