Hypertension or high blood pressure is a chronic medical condition in which the blood pressure in the arteries is elevated. Hypertension puts strain on the heart, leading to hypertensive heart disease and coronary artery disease. Hypertension is also a major risk factor for stroke, aneurysms of the arteries (e.g. aortic aneurysm), peripheral arterial disease and chronic kidney disease. (Wikipedia)
How to deal with hypertension? Experts suggest the following:
- Good diet
- Exercises & Aerobic programs
- Walking, jogging, swimming, etc.
- Yoga & Meditation
- Lifestyle changes
Your views are welcome! - Sundar
If your diagnosis shows primary hypertension, you need drugs and nothing else.
In the majority of patients you should forget about anything else but drugs.... All the other things you described are lifestyle changes, which are usually ineffective in particular in older patients. For example to normalize the BMI one could loose weight or grow - the recommendations are equally effective in most patients :-). But seriously, if you find a patient, who is able to minimize the salt intake, loose weight and exercise a little bit, your medication will be much more effective...
All the other measures are nice but do not work.
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Jacek
If your diagnosis shows primary hypertension, you need drugs and nothing else.
Hypertension is one of the most widespread dangerous diseases of this century affecting the young as well as the elderly. It can lead to other, more dangerous conditions, coronary and brain diseases among them. The two main causes of hypertension are stress and being overweight conditions associated with the life-style of the materially wealthy, industrialized nations. Controlling hypertension and related disease focus more attention on primary prevention strategies as a means of decreasing hypertensive risks. Behavioural theories help identify attitudes, beliefs, and knowledge influencing behaviours that increase one's risk for hypertension. Using information based on the behavioural theories will help develop more effective programs for primary prevention of hypertension.
Go to a specialised doctor to determine what drugs are suitable for you. All the other things are just ti be on discussion!
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