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Please add your advices or your comments about hypertension.
Lifestyle measures shall always be a component of the hypertension treatment. Sometimes such measures are enough to cure the condition. Those measures are:
- Reducing salt consume.
- Reduction of the consume of fat, and especially saturated fat.
- Weight reduction.
- Relaxing and stress reduction techiques, for example meditation.
- Regular exercise.
SPECIAL FOOD TYPES THAT REDUCE THE BLOOD PRESSURE
Research projects suggest that the following food types reduce blood pressure.
- Fish oil and fat fish. The working substances seem to be the omega-3 unsaturated fatty acids eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). The effect from fish oil seems to ceise when the fish oil supplements are stopped.
-Olive oil, especially olive oil of the quality extra virgin.
NATURAL SUPPLEMENTS TO HELP AGAINST HYPERTENSION
Natural supplements to treat hypertension exist. These supplements lower the cholesterole and lipid content in the blood, prevents oxidation of tissue components by free radicals, help damaged blood vessels to heal, and thereby lower the blood pressure.
The ingredients giving these effects are potassium, magnesium, calcium and vitamin C.
MEDICAL TREATMENT OF HYPERTENSION
When lifestyle measures are not enough to cure the condition, medical treatment must be applied.
Diuretica, or medicines to increase the urine production, is used to decrease the water content in the blood vessels, and therby reduce the pressure in the vessels. When the water content is lowered, the heart does not need to pump so hard any more, and this will also reduce the pressure.
Beta-adrenergic blockers is another group of medicines to treat hypertention. This group of medicines block the signals that hormones and neurotransmittors give to the vessel walls, and the vesel walls then relaxe. They also slows down the heart rate to give a lower pressure excerted by the heart upon the blood.
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