High blood pressure (BP) - is a risk factor for heart failure. In the last publication we discussed how to prevent blood pressure rise. Now, about how to live, if BP still appeared high.
You have to control blood pressure throughout your life.
To control the pressure will have to hold the weight in decent limits, to choose the right foods, doing physical exercise, manage stress, do not smoke and limit alcohol.
If you are prescribed medication to lower blood pressure, you have to take them for life. This does not mean that the "drug pressure" similar to drugs, from which no slezesh. This means that the "drug pressure" saves lives, but without them you are likely to get a heart attack or stroke.
Will often measure blood pressure. This can be done by a doctor and can be done at home. Mechanical tonometer with pear very accurate, but they do not get to measure blood pressure itself. Need automatic tonometer that measures on the shoulder.
If you shoulder is complete, it is difficult to pick up the cuff, you have to try to measure the blood pressure wrist tonometer. Tonometer wrist can make mistakes.
"Medicines pressure" usually do not feel better, but save lives. Most often we do not feel high blood pressure, but it hurts us. All of the pressure drugs have side effects. This means that the medicine we can feel a little worse than without medication. But drugs save lives. If you want to live longer, then carefully follow the reception mode and suffer side effects.
There are several different groups of drugs for lowering blood pressure. in their own doctor combines them based on efficacy and side effects. Without a doctor pick up a treatment does not work. Some medicines do not mix on the pressure, they can even be poisoned. Therefore independently to experiment better.
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Read my articles on related topics:
Is it possible to measure the blood pressure at the wrist
Prevention of heart failure. Part one
Symptoms of heart failure
The story about the gravity and hypertension
