New blood pressure guidelines recommend an earlier start to treatment and skipping alcohol
When you check your blood pressure next time, wait for your medical provider to be slightly more aggressive about high levels. And if you like a glass of wine with dinner or cocktail on weekends, support yourself: New Guidelines from American Heart Association and American Cardiology College Thursday came out Suggest you to abstain.
Committees from heart organizations continuously evaluate the latest research to help medical providers understand the best approach. hypertensionHowever, this is the first new directive set since 2017. Heart disease has long been one of the easiest changing ways to avoid such a death in the world. Keeping your blood pressure under control can also reduce your risk of kidney disease, type 2 diabetes and dementia.
Almost half of all adults in the US are higher than normal blood pressure. According to the guidelines, the number of targets for adults has not changed: normal blood pressure is less than 120/80 mm Hg, high blood pressure is 120-129/80 mm Hg. If you are 130/80 mmHg or higher, your medical provider will ask you to make some changes.
Blood pressure is measured in the millimeter mercury shortened as mm HG. It has a higher number or systolic reading of the measurement and a lower number, diastolic reading: systolic pressure measures blood force when pumping from the heart to the arteries, and diastolic is the pressure created while standing between heartbeats.
High blood pressure typically does not have any symptoms. However, when your blood pressure is high, your blood pushes towards the walls of your blood vessels, which makes your heart less efficient, so both the vessels and the heart should work harder. Without treatment, high blood pressure will damage your arteries at the end of the blood pressure will increase your risk of heart attack or stroke.
How to treat high blood pressure
New blood pressure guides, if your systolic blood pressure is in the range of 130 to 139, your medical provider should first encourage you to adopt healthy lifestyle changes. After three to six months, if the lifestyle changes alone, the drug is recommended if it does not reduce your blood pressure to the target range. This is a change in lifestyle changes and medication of everyone with over 140 systolic blood pressure.
“So we know that only to try to control blood pressure more aggressively, better for more people, cardiovascular disease, stroke, kidney disease and now reducing blood pressure in fact helps to reduce the risk of dementia. This guide is really great news,” he said.
According to new directives, lifestyle changes include a healthy weight protection or obtaining, a heart-health diet, reducing the amount of salt in what you eat and drink, managing stress, moderate physical activity of at least 150 minutes per week and resistance exercise.
There is another change from 2017: new directives propose ongoing alcohol.
The guidelines would say that if people chose to drink, one or less for women should be two or less for men a day. Jones said there is a lot of evidence that alcohol adversely affects your blood pressure.
Dean and Professor Emeritus from Mississippi University Faculty of Medicine also like to drink a lot of people, but we want you to make a conscious decision because the evidence is there. ” “There is a lot of individual variability with the relationship between alcohol and blood pressure, but for those who choose to drink ideally and for those who choose to drink, we reveal less than one for women and less for men.”
Based on an increasing group of evidence, Jones said it was more emphasized how important it is to reduce blood pressure to reduce the risk of development development.
With more studies about women who have problems High blood pressure during pregnancyJones also emphasizes how important those who want to be pregnant of guides or watching the blood pressure. High blood pressure may damage pregnancy and increase the risk of having blood pressure even after pregnancy.
Diet suggestions still Cartoon diet It is a high diet on fruits, vegetables, whole grains, fish, poultry, beans, hazelnuts and vegetable oils and is low on fat, sugar and tropical oils such as coconut and palm oils.
“We also know that there is a barip on sodium and we know that salt and alcohol are favorites for many people, but we recommend that you limit salt and alcohol for many people, and increase the purchase of potassium.” An easy way to do this is cooking at home to use potassium -enriched salt substitutes. Sodium intake should be less than 2,300 mg per day and move towards a more ideal limit of 1,500 mg per day.
For people with overweight or obesity, guidelines recommend losing at least 5% of body weight. For people with more severe obesity, the guidelines suggest that Jones say that they have clinically proven interventions: diet and exercise and weight loss drugs Including GLP-1s. Guides for people with very severe obesity recommend surgery.
Jones knows that it may be difficult for people to control blood pressure, but taking these steps can significantly help a person’s health.
“The truth is that it is the first line of what we recommend for the prevention and treatment of high blood pressure and we live in a very difficult environment with food. It is difficult to buy people a low sodium. It is difficult for people to eat potassium enough.” It is difficult, but it works. “
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