Even if high blood pressure is a chronic disease, there is still no cure for it. Fortunately, we can control it with the help of various drugs or by improving our ways of life. Of course, it is better to prevent than to cure, therefore living an organized and healthy life can keep away the hypertension from us for as long as we continue living that way.
High blood pressure is the most important cause of heart diseases, of strokes, kidney failures and heart attacks- you can say that it is the most feared serial killer of our times. This means that having a high blood pressure is having a high risk of developing heart diseases or kidney ones. It is more dangerous because it has not any alarming symptom or signs. You can find whether you have or not a high blood pressure by controlling its value regularly.
If the blood pressure is too high, do not worry; there are ways to lower it down. But what happens when the blood pressure rises? The blood is taken by the heart and sent to the tissues of the body through arteries, and the pressure of the blood means the force used in pushing the blood in the arteries walls. The blood pressure is a maximum one when the heart contracts and pumps the blood.
Certain activities make the blood pressure rise or lower. For example, if are running to catch a bus, the blood pressure will rise. When you sleep it lowers. These are normal variations of the blood pressure. Some persons have a high blood pressure. The blood of these persons pushes the walls of the arteries with a force higher than the normal. If they will not take the right treatment for it, they can encounter a series of health problems like the arteriosclerosis, heart attacks, the heart becomes larger due to the supplementary effort, kidney problems.
The persons who have a high blood pressure, no matter the race, the gender or the age can prevent the high blood pressure if they will follow few simple rules:
– Maintain an optimal weight, and try to lose the weight excess;
– Try to have moderate physical activities;
– Choose the food with low content of salt and sodium;
– You can drink alcohol, but in moderate quantities.
All of those rules must be followed during the medicated treatment too, but it would be better to use them as prevention methods. Another important measure regarding your health is to quit smoking; even if smoking is not directly related to the high blood pressure, it can increase the risk of having a heart attack or a cerebral vascular attack.
One last piece of advice for controlling the high blood pressure would be to increase the number of physical activities. Regular exercises will diminish the risk of having a heart disease, will reduce the level of cholesterol from your blood and increase the level of good cholesterol, and consequently, lower the high blood pressure. Use every day activities to help your body fight back the high blood pressure: use the stairs instead of the elevator, walk when you are going to work, don’t take the car, dance in clubs or enjoy gardening. You can make your life more pleasant and you can lower the high blood pressure until the scientist will find the cure for it.
By: Clive Jenkins
