Not only those involved in the "Shaping Therapy" program should know that high blood pressure or hypertension is often called a "silent killer". This disease often occurs asymptomatically. The only way to detect this ailment is to regularly measure your blood pressure.

For many people, blood pressure may be increased for several years, but they may not even suspect this. This can be dangerous, since high blood pressure causes cardiovascular diseases, kidney diseases, certain eye diseases. And in combination with obesity, smoking, high cholesterol and diabetes, hypertension significantly increases the risk of heart attacks and strokes.

Blood pressure is divided into: "upper" - "systolic" and "lower -" diastolic ". Optimum is the pressure 110 to 70 mm. Ppm. Art.. The upper limit of the norm: 130-139 at 85-89.

The main causes of hypertension are:.

- Heredity.

- Race (for example, Africans are more likely to develop hypertension than white).

- Sex (men under 55 are more likely than women to be hypertensive. However, at the age of 75 and older, women are more likely than men to suffer from hypertension).

- Sensitivity to salt.

- Excess weight.

- Alcohol abuse.

- Passive lifestyle.

- Diabetes, kidney stone disease.

- Age (elderly people more often than young people suffer from hypertension).

Today, medicine has a wide range of drugs that oppose hypertension, but only the doctor can determine which of them should be used. But even the most effective means will require the observance of a definite way of life for successful treatment of hypertension:.

- refusal of fatty and salty foods;.

- refusal from smoking;.

- reduction of alcohol consumption;.

- a healthy lifestyle;.

- constant monitoring of pressure and body weight.

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