High blood pressure or hypertension is very dangerous for health and is responsible for 75 percent of cases of heart attack and stroke. To avoid this risk, you need to control several organs health that are known as risk factors of hypertension.
Ideally, a person's blood pressure should be less than 120/80, although up to 129/85 is considered normal. Where the first number is the systolic pressure, the pressure force of blood flow against the artery walls, while the second number is the diastolic pressure, the blood pressure when the heart is relaxed, between heartbeats.
Some organs and hormones in one's body turns a major effect on the increase in blood pressure. If there are problems on parts of the body, it will automatically increase your blood pressure and make a person more at risk for cardiovascular disease and stroke.
Here is part of the body that will greatly affect the increased blood pressure and hypertension is a factor, as reported Besthealth, Friday (01/02/2013), among others:
1. Heart
Increased blood pressure while that occurs when a person is exercising, is normal and healthy. However, if you are constantly under stress, the heart has to work harder than it should be in pumping blood throughout the body.
As a result, the blood will flow more quickly and in a high pressure throughout the body. Constant high blood pressure can cause damage to the artery or arteries is called atherosclerosis.
2. Arteries
Arteries are lined with smooth muscles that can expand when the blood flowed. Although elastic, arteries can also be overwhelmed in arresting the flow of blood through it.
If your arteries clogged by plaque that builds up due to the habit of smoking or eating fatty foods, can make the arteries narrower. Blood is forced to flow through arteries that are too narrow, can increase blood pressure in the body.
3. Kidney
Kidney functions to control the amount of sodium in the body. Sodium itself has an important role in the body, which is to maintain water levels in the body, including the blood. The more water content in the blood, will mean the more fluid will pass through the blood vessels with high pressure.
4. Hormone
Increased levels of stress hormones in the body can make the heart beat faster and pump more blood and increased pressure against the artery more. Other types of hormones in the body are also influential in the regulation of blood pressure.
Drugs known as ACE inhibitors can control hormones and help relieve high blood pressure.
You must take care of all four of these risk factors by adopting a healthy lifestyle, which is like keeping a meal, reducing salt intake and lose weight. lose weight by 10 percent can reduce high blood pressure to the normal range without medication.
Expand eat fruits and vegetables and avoid the use of pain medication to excess. Studies have shown that regular consumption of pain relieving drugs can also increase the risk of hypertension.