Exercise for High Blood Pressure BP HBP

Physical Exercises for High Blood Pressure, HBP

Doctor: Keep in mind the 3 principles of exercise, blood pressure slowly drops.

High blood pressure has become a common disease for more and more people, but many people will say, "My blood pressure is slightly elevated, only higher than 140/90 mm Hg. Is this a serious situation? Is it okay? Taking medicine? Could it be done by some means to lower blood pressure? "

In fact, when the blood pressure is higher than 140/90 mm Hg, it is critical hypertension. 

In clinical practice, when the critical examination index is critical and "critical hypertension" or "critical hypercholesterolemia" occurs, should treatment be required? What should I pay attention to? 

This is also a topic that cardiologists often encounter patients asking.

Today, in response to this series of questions, 39 Health Network invited Lu Zhigang, chief physician of the Department of Cardiology, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital, to give a scientific and detailed answer.

Critical hypertension also easily develops into hypertension

The standard set by the World Health Organization is that normal adults are 130 / 80mmHg or less, hypertension is 140 / 90mmHg or more, and critical hypertension is between the two (130-139 / 85mmHg). 

Critical hypertension is also called borderline hypertension, which refers to the blood pressure value between normal blood pressure and confirmed hypertension.

In clinical practice, hypertension is often graded. On the one hand, critical hypertension can be divided into first, second, and third grades; on the other hand, according to risk factors, it can be divided into low-risk, medium-risk, high-risk, and high-risk. Types of.

According to statistical data, more than 70% of people with borderline hypertension will develop hypertension. 

Patients with borderline hypertension have a final diagnosis of hypertension 2-5 times higher than normal hypertension.

Patients can be diagnosed with hypertension by measuring blood pressure over 140 / 90mmHg before getting up in the morning for 3 consecutive days.

In addition, the critical hypertension is characterized by a slightly higher blood pressure, and no important organs such as heart, brain, and kidneys have organic damage, but the morbidity and mortality of cardiovascular complications are more than two times higher than those with normal blood pressure. 

Hemorrhage, cerebral thrombosis, coronary heart disease, and mortality are similar to those of patients with hypertension, and are significantly higher than normal people.

Critical hypertension is easy to be overlooked because it has no organic damage in the early stage and lacks specific symptoms and signs. Patients need to pay close attention to their blood pressure and regularly measure it regularly.

These three measures can be used to adjust critical hypertension

So, how to control and treat borderline hypertension?

The prevention and treatment of borderline hypertension is the same as general hypertension. Persistent treatment measures, including the use of drugs, should be taken for hypertensive patients with definite diagnosis, and no one disagrees. 

However, there has been a long-term difference in whether people with critical hypertension whose blood pressure exceeds the normal standard and whose symptoms are not serious need treatment.

It is generally believed that patients with borderline hypertension should use non-pharmacological treatment as much as possible when starting treatment, such as reducing sodium intake, weight loss and appropriate physical exercise, and perseverance, which will effectively control blood pressure.

At the same time, critical hypertension generally does not require or use less antihypertensive drugs, and changes to a three-month active lifestyle to adjust blood pressure. In general, positive measures mainly include scientifically appropriate exercise, supplemented by a reasonable diet, a good rest and an optimistic mood. in particular:

I.  The exercise content of patients with critically high blood pressure is mainly relaxation and endurance exercises, and Taijiquan, walking, jogging, health Qigong (relaxation), and health care gymnastics (such as antihypertensive meditation) are more suitable;

II. Exercise time can be done once a day in the morning and evening, about 30 minutes each time. In the morning, you can walk for 10 minutes or jog, then walk for a few minutes, do a set of anti-hypertension exercises, and finally finish the relaxation exercise. In the evening, jogging is generally not suitable. You can do Yoga first, do medical exercises, Qi Gong, and finally take a 10-minute walk;

III. The critically hypertensive patients should breathe smoothly and naturally without holding their breath; the movements should be slow and slow, and should not be weight-bearing; do not bend your head and bend down; get rid of thinking, and relax the spirit.

If the blood pressure is found to be good after three months of conditioning, you may not take medicine at this time. On the contrary, if the blood pressure is still high after self-adjustment, drug treatment is necessary.

How to prevent and manage daily high-risk patients?

At present, the awareness rate of hypertension in the world in general is 30%. The treatment rate is 15%. The control rate is only 0.4%, which means that out of 1000 hypertension patients, only 300 know that they have hypertension, and 150 take medicine. Further, only 4 people actually control their blood pressure within the normal range. 

This is also an important reason for the high incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and mortality in the world.

Therefore, all patients, regardless of whether they are borderline hypertension or not, as long as there is a potential risk of hypertension, people need to raise concerns. To this end, it is recommended to do daily prevention and management:

1. Measure blood pressure regularly, at least once every 1-2 weeks as conditions permit, you can bring your own sphygmomanometer and learn to measure your blood pressure.

2. The treatment of hypertension should adhere to the "three hearts", that is, confidence, determination, and perseverance, only to do so can prevent or delay the damage to important organs of the body.

In addition, taking antihypertensive drugs regularly, you do not want to reduce or stop the drug at will, you can adjust under the guidance of the doctor and the current condition to prevent blood pressure rebound.

In addition, take appropriate medicines under the guidance of a doctor, pay attention to work-rest combination, pay attention to diet, exercise, maintain emotional stability, get enough sleep, and avoid watching nervous and scary movies and TV.

Finally, it should be noted that when the blood pressure rises or is too low, the blood pressure fluctuates greatly or there is dazzling, dizziness, nausea and vomiting, blurred vision, hemiplegia, aphasia, consciousness disorder, difficulty breathing, physical weakness, etc. See a doctor. If the condition is critical, ask the 120 emergency center for help.

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Name: Gwynneth May

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