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Changes in lifestyle, including dietary changes and exercise, are by far the most important in BP control, but often need a combination of therapies, including drugs. Regardless of the cause of hypertension, there is a wide range of drugs to treat, usually used in stages to find the drug plan that works staff in every hypertensive patient.

DIURETICS

Generally, the first drug of choice in hypertension is a diuretic. Increased urine output and exit the body, which serves to lower the TA, both lost fluids because it decreases as the resistance to blood flow in the vessels of the body. (However, thiazides may increase blood cholesterol levels). Read the rest of this entry »

EXERCISE

A program of aerobic exercise helps strengthen the heart, to lose weight and control blood pressure. No one knows the exact mechanism by which helps lower blood pressure. There must be a proper exercise to every age and every person, thus making half-hour jog 2 or 3 days a week is enough for most people.

ESTABLISHMENT OF THE INDIVIDUAL THERAPY

Since hypertension does not usually cause symptoms, how to know if the drugs are working is to take the tension, always start at the same time (blood pressure varies throughout the day). Once pressure has normalized arterials should take one or two times a week, but at different times. The goal of treatment is to keep blood pressure in normal ranges throughout the day. Read the rest of this entry »

In most cases, the cause of hypertension is unknown. However, it can be treated effectively, reducing the TA to manageable levels or normal and avoiding all the serious consequences of hypertension, which would continue a normal life expectancy.

Treatment of hypertension based on the following points:

- Diet
- Exercise
- Treatment with drugs.

DIET

Salt restriction and weight reduction: Read the rest of this entry »

Is stress always leads to hypertension?

From the epidemiological point of view known to the people who have survived natural disasters or war show elevated levels of blood pressure that last weeks or months and then return them to normal.

Can not be said to date, and in general, that the hyperreactivity to stress in specific situations to predict the future development of hypertension. Individual differences are important, including those arising from operation exaggerated sympathetic nervous system and the presence or absence of family history of hypertension.

What is the impact of stress in hypertension?

Work activity is associated with increases in mean arterial pressure may or may not cross the threshold of hypertension. Read the rest of this entry »

What is stress?

It is a requirement that the environment imposes on a body. The individual is faced with a threatening situation and aggressively to which is to use adaptive resources in order to avoid a deterioration of their physical and / or mental.

The same situation can be assessed as threatening or not by different individuals, so their ability stressful is different for each.

The stress reaction is very complex and constitute a succession of events such neuronal, muscular, cardiovascular, immune and hormonal systems. Laboratory experiments show that the cardiovascular system is very sensitive to external stimuli threatening. Read the rest of this entry »

How I can control blood pressure?

The NHLBI has found that five lifestyle changes can help control blood pressure:

- Keep your weight as close to normal. Eating fruits, vegetables, grains, and nonfat dairy products.

- Limit your daily sodium (salt) to 2000 milligrams or less if you have high blood pressure. Read the information found in food labels that say how much sodium is in one serving. Keeping a daily salt intake.

- Get plenty of exercise, which means at least 30 minutes of moderate activity such as walking, most days of the week. Read the rest of this entry »

The kidneys are very important for healthy blood pressure and, in turn, blood pressure can also affect the health of the kidneys. High blood pressure, also called hypertension, can damage the kidneys.

What is hypertension?

Blood pressure measures the force of blood against the walls of blood vessels. Blood pressure that remains high for a long time is called hypertension. If too much fluid in the body increases the amount of fluid in blood vessels and raises blood pressure. The Narrow or clogged blood vessels also raise blood pressure.

If you have high blood pressure, consult your doctor regularly.

What harm does high blood pressure to the kidneys?

High blood pressure makes your heart work harder and, over time, can damage blood vessels throughout the body. If damaged blood vessels in the kidneys, these organs may fail to remove impurities and extra fluid from the body. The extra fluid in blood vessels may then raise blood pressure even more. It’s a dangerous cycle. Read the rest of this entry »

DEFINITION

The excess pressure in the arteries maintained for a period of years and untreated can lead to many complications. It describes the most important.

ARTERIOSCLEROSIS

When blood vessels are subject to increased pressure maintained, respond to thicken, making them less flexible. In these arteries stiff easily fixed with excess fats that circulate in the blood. At the level of kidney arteries, arteriosclerosis causes less flow reaches the kidneys, and kidneys respond by releasing renin, a hormone that in turn causes an increase in the TA. This exaggerates hypertension and causes more damage to blood vessels. Read the rest of this entry »

How is it diagnosed?

- The diagnosis is made based on the typical characteristics of the lesions.

- The illumination with ultraviolet light (Wood) shows a pink or yellow fluorescence in the lesions.

- In some cases it may be necessary to confirm the presence of the fungus. This is done by direct examination of the scales under the microscope after staining previously.

- There are several diseases that can mimic the lesions of pityriasis versicolor, vitiligo, tinea (of the feet, body or groin), pityriasis rosea, pityriasis alba, etc.. In general, fine scaling and microscopic examination features allow differentiation from these diseases. Read the rest of this entry »

What are the symptoms?

Usually located on the upper chest and back, neck and shoulders, but may appear anywhere in the body. Spots in these areas appear lighter or darker than the rest of normal skin with a mild peeling. Begin as reddish or brownish spots, which later become clearer. The spots may be isolated or coalesce to form large plaques that appear to maps. By scratching the lesions, typical desquamation appears very thin. This fact is known as a sign of the UNAD. Read the rest of this entry »