The best treatment of hypertension is a good prevention to avoid their occurrence.This is essential to follow a heart-healthy lifestyle:
* Do not smoke. The snuff raises blood pressure and heart rate. In addition, hypertensive smokers multiply the detrimental effect of snuff. Quitting smoking has positive effects outweigh any medication for hypertension.
* Be careful with alcohol. Moderate consumption of alcohol (a glass of wine daily with meals) may be beneficial, but if it causes excessive increase in blood pressure and other harmful changes the heart and other organs.
* Control your weight. Overweight is a cause of hypertension. Reducing it lowers blood pressure and reduces cardiovascular risk and diabetes.
* Exercise. Conducting regular exercise lowers blood pressure numbers. It increases muscle mass and exercise capacity, helps control weight and reduce cardiovascular risk achieved.
* Practice a heart-healthy diet. Hypertensive patients should reduce salt intake and foods that contain it. It is also necessary to consume fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, bread and other cereals. Finally, using olive oil as main fat and increasing intake of poultry and fish at the expense of red meat.
* Drug treatment. If you are hypertensive you can not settle for the above recommendations, as you may need to continue drug treatment. The results do not always reflect an immediate reduction in blood pressure, so it is necessary to wait a bit before the doctor put to a medication change.
Antihypertensive drugs are grouped into several types:
1. Diuretics.
2. Renin angiotensin system inhibitors (ACEI).
3. Antagonists of angiotensin receptor (ARB)
4. Calcium antagonists.
5. Beta-blockers.
6. Association of drugs.
Patients who continue antihypertensive treatment should consider these tips:
* Although blood pressure has returned to normal should not stop taking the medication before.
* Strictly adhere to the treatment and try to always keep the time of intake of the pills.
* Consultation with the doctor if treatment is not successful here, because sometimes it is necessary to involve several drugs to control blood pressure. Check also whether a specific food diet (eg, salt) is blocking the antihypertensive effect of the medication.
* The treatment should always be reconciled with the heart-healthy lifestyle.
* Watch other risk factors, because if not, your good blood pressure numbers will not help much.
Tags: blood pressure, Hypertension, Prevention Hypertension, Treatment Hypertension
