Hypertension is an important risk factor for Card and cerebrovascular disease . With the aging of the population and the improvement of living standards, the prevalence of hypertension has increased year by year. However, compared with the huge population of hypertension patients, the awareness, control rate and treatment rate of hypertension are still at a low level.
Hypertension is a disease that can be controlled well, but there are many people who cannot effectively control it. We can’t help but ask, what is the difficulty in controlling hypertension?
Ignorance is fearless—
Your own blood pressure is your own!
Speaking of the disease of hypertension, many people know about it, but Half of patients with hypertension do not know that they have hypertension . Clinically, doctors often ask whether the patient has hypertension, and the patient answers without it; and then asks about the blood pressure measured normally. The patient either answers that he has never tested it at all, or he does not think he has hypertension at all. If you don’t know your blood pressure and don’t know it yourself, how can you control your hypertension?
I’m going to ask here, are you an adult after you are 18 years old? Is your blood pressure okay?
Many people do not understand their blood pressure and think that high blood pressure is the business of the elderly and are still far from themselves. They default to their blood pressure, so they do not monitor their blood pressure. You should know that people with hypertension have long begun to become younger, but young people with hypertension have relatively insufficient understanding and are far from paying attention to it. There are also some elderly people who occasionally tested their blood pressure in the community or clinic many years ago, and they thought that their blood pressure was normal. In fact, as you get older, your blood pressure will gradually rise. If you don’t have hypertension in the past, it does not mean that you can “live in peace” now or in the future.
Only by knowing oneself and one’s enemy can one never win a battle. To control your blood pressure, you must first understand your own blood pressure. Only by monitoring your blood pressure regularly can we promptly know whether there is hypertension. Therefore, it is recommended that every adult monitors blood pressure regularly, especially high-risk groups: adults over 18 years old should measure their blood pressure at least once every two years, people over 35 years old should measure their blood pressure every year, and people who are prone to hypertension should measure their blood pressure every 6 months. Of course, if you want to increase the measurement frequency, it is also beneficial to the body.
When the blood pressure is constantly interrupted, it will be disturbed -
If the blood pressure is high, you must control
control hypertension. First of all, you must know what is the normal standard for hypertension in : Without using antihypertensive drugs, the clinic blood pressure value is ≥140/90 mmHg , and the home self-tested blood pressure value is ≥135/85 mmHg. It should be noted that if your blood pressure is normal and your blood pressure fluctuates occasionally once or twice, there is no need to be too nervous. You can measure it or consult a doctor after a period of time.
Do you have to control hypertension?
People often ask doctors: "My blood pressure is a little higher, but there are no symptoms. Can you not take medicine first?" The reason for this question is that it is that there is little knowledge of the harm of hypertension. It is believed that taking medicine is not good, and it is three parts poisonous. After taking it, you have to take it for a long time and you can't stop at all. At this time, if the patient just heard about some earthwork or "high-tech", it is easy to be charged "IQ tax" if he is not careful. When you are hesitating whether to control your blood pressure, there seems to be no symptoms that bother you. Little do people know that hypertension unknowingly damages the arteries of the body until complications such as myocardial infarction, stroke , renal failure, peripheral vascular disease, etc. are present. It is too late to treat again. If time can go back to the first diagnosis of hypertension, the patient can put away his luck and control his blood pressure without hesitation. Maybe everything will be different.
Once all patients with hypertension are diagnosed, they must start drug treatment while in lifestyle intervention. A healthy lifestyle is to limit salt, lose weight, exercise more, quit smoking, quit drinking, and have a calm mind.If a patient who wants to postpone drug treatment based on the condition or the patient's wishes, if a simple lifestyle intervention has not met the standard for more than 3 months, he or she still needs to follow the doctor's advice for drug treatment.
Know before doing it—
Persistence is the best medicine
Have a preliminary understanding of hypertension and have made up my mind to control my blood pressure. Finally, it is how to achieve the blood pressure. The blood pressure meeting is not just the blood pressure drops to the normal range, but also the standard is to meet the standard smoothly, the standard from morning to long-term and the standard .
Therefore, patients must correct some wrong concepts: if you take antihypertensive drugs at high blood pressure, you must actually monitor your blood pressure regularly; if you take antihypertensive drugs for several days, your blood pressure will not drop normally, and the medicine will not work. In fact, antihypertensive drugs take several weeks to achieve the best antihypertensive effect; if the blood pressure is high, you will feel uncomfortable, and you will take a tablet of antihypertensive drugs yourself when you feel uncomfortable - it is best to adjust the antihypertensive treatment under the guidance of a doctor.
There are many antihypertensive drugs on the market, including single tablets, compound preparations and combined with multiple drug treatments. What kind of antihypertensive regimen should be chosen? It seems difficult for patients to choose. Various antihypertensive drugs have their own characteristics. The medication regimen recommended in the guideline should also consider the effect of individual treatment. As long as the blood pressure reduction plan can achieve blood pressure standards, it is the solution that suits you.
Of course, there is also refractory hypertension, and you need to go to the hospital for a good examination to clarify the cause and adjust the treatment plan. At the same time, you must remember that the most important thing in the face of hypertension is to persist: insist on regular monitoring of blood pressure, adhere to a healthy lifestyle, adhere to drug treatment, and do not discourage when blood pressure fluctuates occasionally.
High blood pressure is called "silent killer". When fighting hypertension, you should know that the main battlefield is by our side. To control hypertension, you must fight everywhere and at all times. This is a long and long-term process that requires not only hospitals and communities, but also patients, families and potential hypertension people. They integrate knowledge and action, participate together, and fight hypertension together.
Content source: Healthy China WeChat official account
Editor: Journal of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine
Component: Li Jinhuan Qin Shasha Sun Lei Wang Jingjing Dong Wei
