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How Lowering Blood Pressure?

Lifestyle changes
Weight loss: blood pressure in obese individuals is higher height and weight loss programs provide both fall in blood pressure and increases the effectiveness of drugs used to lower blood pressure. It is possible to have a healthy body weight with adequate and balanced nutrition. Foods rich in fruits and vegetables, oils, especially from saturated fat should be poor. The salt content should be less food and insufficient physical activity is additionally required. Alcohol should not be taken if you overloaded.

Cessation of smoking: Smoking causes a significant increase in blood pressure. Besides the non-effectiveness of the drugs used to lower blood pressure also decreases. Blood pressure, cigarette smoking dropped from the first day when it will begin to be controlled more easily.

Exercise: Regular physical activity is essential for a healthy body mainly including heart health. Physical activity of HDL "good" cholesterol increases, blood pressure and reduces the amount of fat in the blood. All this reduces the risk of heart disease. In addition to their regular activity reduces stress, provide more healthy sleep patterns Stress: Stress may increase blood pressure significantly. Controlling stress facilitates blood pressure control.
        

Medication: If lifestyle changes and medications used to control blood pressure can not be obtained. However, in trying to take control of blood pressure with the help of medication to maintain their lifestyle changes helps to make less medication. If applied on the side effects of drug therapy and appropriate use of medicines need to be careful. Characteristics of drugs used to treat hypertension are as follows: diuretics (diuretics): the excessive salt and water in the urine is disposed through the body. Short term by reducing the amount of fluid in the body in the long run lead to a decrease of blood pressure by decreasing vascular resistance Beta blockers: Heart and reduce the stimulation of nerves through the blood vessels. As a result the blood pressure drops and the heart works less workload. ACE inhibitors: narrowing made in the kidney and blood vessels, inhibit blood pressure show the effects of a hormone which leads to rise. Calcium Channel Blockers: They prevent calcium from entering the muscle cells of the heart and blood vessels. In this case it relaxes blood vessels.

Watch my blood pressure

Measurement of blood pressure: blood pressure measured before the lever must be removed if the clothes fit. Patients should be heard at least 5 minutes. Before measurement coffee and smoking can raise blood pressure. People should be seated position, arm while blood pressure measurement should be at heart level, and it must be ensured that stretched arm supported from below. It should be at least two minutes with an interval of two or more measurements should be taken and averaged. Cuff should be inflated after being wound to the arm blood pressure cuff. Then the listening device inside face of the sleeve wrapped around the elbow of the arm (stethoscope) Ensure that by placing a flow of sound to be heard. Then the air sleeve to be approximately 3 mm Hg per second download should begin to slow. Meanwhile, the great tension where the first sound of the heartbeat value that indicates the systolic blood pressure. The sleeve will continue to be downloaded. The level now becomes inaudible pulses of small blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure that indicates the value.

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring

This is the process of winning weight in recent years and recorded by a device attached to the patient by measuring blood pressure at regular intervals for 24 hours. Here during the day how the blood pressure remained the treatment requirement by demonstrating, treatment response, white coat hypertension in which it and the patient's encounters with doctors in health institutions resulting transient blood pressure elevation can be demonstrated more clearly.


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