High blood pressure
High blood pressure, which is not even recognized as serious anymore because so many people suffer from it! High blood pressure seems like a very common disease to us in modern society.고혈압 낮추는 방법
In fact, high blood pressure itself is not a dangerous or problematic disease. However, if blood vessels burst due to high blood pressure, this would develop into a serious problem. To put it simply, when strong pressure enters a narrow hose, the hose bursts and water pouts out, right? Our blood vessels are the same.
Complications of high blood pressure include stroke, heart failure, myocardial infarction, kidney symptoms, cerebral hemorrhage, and cranial nerve symptoms. These are all very fatal diseases.
21% of heart diseases and 35% of cerebrovascular diseases are found to be the main cause of high blood pressure, and 13% of deaths are due to high blood pressure, so please remember that it is not a disease that can be ignored.
Why Blood Pressure Is Dangerous
High blood pressure is dangerous because there are no symptoms and it continues to go through a vicious cycle.
The stages of that vicious cycle are as follows.
High blood pressure, no symptoms, no uncomfortable pain
You don’t care because you don’t have symptoms, and you’re neglecting medication and management
I don’t know the severity of the blood pressure level as it continues to rise
Eventually, the blood pressure is broken, and complications come
High blood pressure is dangerous and scary because complications can be a very fatal problem if you approach without any symptoms. If you are not interested in blood pressure, I hope you can check your blood pressure and improve it.
Criteria for taking high blood pressure medications
a normal blood pressure reading
80 to 120 mmHg (to be precise, 79 to 119 mmHg)
a standard for high blood pressure
Upper blood pressure 140mmHg to lower blood pressure 90mmHg or higher
This figure is based on medical statistics. High blood pressure is a blood pressure that has risen above the normal blood pressure level, which can cause complications due to abnormal blood vessels.
Increased blood pressure itself does not cause major abnormalities, pain or symptoms, but it is recommended to manage high blood pressure steadily and take medicine when recommended by a doctor. Studies have shown that people with high blood pressure can reduce the probability of stroke by 30 to 40 percent just by taking drugs and improving their lifestyle, and that they are 20 percent less likely to develop diseases such as coronary artery and myocardial infarction.
Upper blood pressure 120 to 129, lower blood pressure less than 80 – Attention blood pressure
Upper blood pressure between 130 and 139, lower blood pressure between 80 and 89 – Prehypertension stage
Blood pressure can vary every time depending on the current condition, so just a little over once does not necessarily mean that it is high blood pressure. However, if you get high blood pressure in the same way several times, it is a certain type of high blood pressure, so you must take care of it.
So when should I take the medicine?
According to Lee Dong-hwan, a family medicine specialist, it is difficult to accurately check the level of high blood pressure with a single test because the method, time, and these things vary from patient to patient, but if the level is high blood pressure every time you take your blood pressure, it is time to take medicine from then on.
Five Ways to Lower Blood Pressure!
The American Heart Association presented five ways to lower blood pressure in 2017. If your blood pressure is high, I hope you can check the information and come back to normal blood pressure.
First! Overweight
Studies have shown that losing 1 kg of weight can lower the average blood pressure level by 1. Perhaps that’s why all obese people have high blood pressure. Studies have shown that losing 10 kg to your current weight drops your gastric blood pressure to 10-15.
Second! Diet
It is said that you can lower your blood pressure to 11 just by managing your diet. It is said that it is recommended to eat a diet rich in fruits and vegetables and to reduce the intake of simple sugars, saturated fatty acids, and fats, and to avoid fast food. Diet is a really important factor that can be more effective than taking blood pressure medication, so you must take care of it.
Third! Low-salt diet
We are all unique people with a love of salt. It is said that 80 percent of Koreans eat twice the WHO’s recommended standard. In Korea, eating soup has become a culture, so the salt intake rate is very high. The solution is to keep in mind that you can control your salt intake by eating only the ingredients and not eating the soup.
There is also a fact that just 6g of salt a day can reduce blood pressure levels to 5.
Fourth! It’s exercise.
I think everyone knows that exercise is unconditionally good.
Regarding high blood pressure, it has been shown that if you exercise for more than 30 minutes a day or five days a week, you can drop your blood pressure to five. Even if you don’t have to do hard exercise at the gym, I highly recommend you to do it steadily because just consistently walking exercise can have a good effect on your blood pressure!
Fifth! No drinking, no smoking.
It turns out that Koreans consume a lot of alcohol and cigarettes. Drinking less than two drinks a day on average can lower your blood pressure by 4, and quitting smoking is one of the active recommendations of the National Health Insurance Service. I hope you can maintain your normal blood pressure by drinking less and quitting smoking.
The data shown below is a summary of the primary medical recommendations.
It was published by the Korean Medical Association and the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and it is a material created by medical experts such as Seoul National University, Yonsei University, and Asan Hospital, so please refer to it.