Blood pressure is said to be high or low, but after all, what is the normal value of blood pressure?
Is there anything I can do to normalize my blood pressure?
When you see a doctor, you are likely to be asked to measure your blood pressure, but many people do not know what the normal blood pressure is and what to do when the blood pressure is higher than normal.
In this article, I will explain the normal value of blood pressure and explain what to do when blood pressure is high.
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normal blood pressure
See the table below for normal blood pressure values.
Hypertension | Quoted from e-health net (Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare)
https://www.e-healthnet.mhlw.go.jp/information/metabolic/m-05-003.html
Normal blood pressure isTop less than 115 and bottom less than 75 when measured at home. Blood pressure in the doctor's office is considered to be below 120 on the top and below 80 on the bottom. Anything above that level is classified as high normal or high blood pressure.
Blood pressure measured at the hospital and blood pressure measured at home are slightly different in the values that are judged to be high. This is thought to take into consideration the movement to the hospital and the tension caused by entering the hospital, which raises blood pressure.
Blood pressure is said to be high when it exceeds 140mmHg.
What if you have been told you have high blood pressure?
What should I do if my blood pressure exceeds the normal value and is judged to be hypertensive?
Explain how to deal with high blood pressure.
refrain from salt
People with high blood pressure are generally told to avoid salt intake.
Eating too much salt increases the concentration of salt in your blood. In order to dilute the salt concentration of the blood, it tries to take in more water into the blood. As a result, more blood can flow through the arteries, raising blood pressure.
Reducing salt intake lowers the salt concentration in your blood. Then, a lot of water in the blood will be discharged and the salt concentration will be thickened. When water is excreted through urine, the amount of blood flowing through the blood vessels is reduced, thus lowering blood pressure.
The recommended salt intake is less than 7.5g for adult men and less than 6.5g for adult women.If you drink all the cup ramen up to the soup, you will be ingesting about 6g of salt. Most of the daily salt intake will be covered by one cup ramen.
It may be difficult to follow your salt intake, but please try to eat with an awareness of your salt intake standards.
exercise
Lack of exercise can also cause high blood pressure.
The study looked at blood pressure changes in exercise and non-exercise groups. Blood pressure decreased in the exercise group.
People who lack exercise and lack of physical strength tend to have higher than normal blood pressure. Obese people have also been found to have higher than normal blood pressure.
The reason may be as follows.
- Continued lack of exercise leads to decreased physical strength and obesity.
- In the state of obesity, triglycerides and blood sugar levels are also high, so there is a high possibility of damaging blood vessels.
- Of course, it also causes arteriosclerosis, so there is a possibility that blood pressure will be higher than normal.
Because of this, obese people are more likely to have high blood pressure.
If you are worried about lack of exercise, I would like to recommend that you start exercising as much as you can.
quit smoking
Nicotine in cigarettes constricts blood vessels. The pressure is applied to the blood vessels because it is just like a hose that drains water is crushed. If this condition continues, the blood vessels will be damaged, and the blood vessels will gradually harden, leading to arteriosclerosis.
When arteriosclerosis occurs, the flexibility of the blood vessels is lost, making it even more susceptible to high blood pressure.
Avoid smoking as much as possible.
do not accumulate stress
When stressed, the sympathetic nervous system of the autonomic nervous system is excited. The sympathetic nerve is an autonomic nerve that wakes up the body and prepares it for combat, so it constricts blood vessels and raises blood pressure. If this condition continues for a long time, the blood vessels will continue to constrict, causing blood pressure to rise above normal levels, leading to arteriosclerosis.
The parasympathetic nervous system works when you are released from stress and in a relaxed state. The parasympathetic nerves dilate blood vessels, thus lowering blood pressure.
It is important not to let stress build up on a daily basis.
high blood pressure risk
High blood pressure prevents the blood vessels from maintaining their normal state, which can lead to arteriosclerosis.
Arteriosclerosis is just a gradual hardening of the arteries, with no major subjective symptoms.
However, as arteriosclerosis progresses, symptoms appear in the organs controlled by the blood vessels. It's hard to tell from the outside, and most people don't notice the danger and leave it alone.
As a result, it progresses unnoticed, narrowing blood passages, clogging blood clots, etc., and one day suddenly causes serious illness.
Diseases caused by arteriosclerosis are
- cerebral hemorrhage
- aortic aneurysm
- angina pectoris
- myocardial infarction
- Cerebral infarction Subarachnoid hemorrhage
- Transient ischemic attack
- arteriosclerosis obliterans
And so on, arteriosclerosis is what leads to a serious disease that suddenly takes away your life.
summary
In this article, I have explained what is normal blood pressure and how to deal with high blood pressure.
Let's objectively judge what kind of life you usually have and try to live a life that is less prone to high blood pressure.
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References
・Sumie Jingu, et al. “Research: Antihypertensive effect of habitual exercise in mild hypertension.” Heart 15.5 (1983): 513-519.
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/shinzo1969/15/5/15_513/_pdf
Supervision: Dr. Yasushi Tsuda