Will you die soon if you have high blood pressure? How long do people with hypertension live? What are the risks?
In daily life, hypertension is a relatively common disease, and many people feel tormented by hypertension, and many people will worry that they have hypertension, "not long to live".
So how long can people with hypertension live?
According to a report, the number of people with hypertension has exceeded 1 billion worldwide, and if hypertensive patients are not actively treated, their average life expectancy will be 20 years less than that of the general population.
What are the dangers of hypertension to the human body?
1, the average life expectancy of people with hypertension is 51 years, less than normal healthy people
According to the report, about 12 million people die from hypertension every year, but if active treatment is taken, the mortality rate can be reduced by half, which means the number of hypertensive patients will be reduced by 6 million.
2. Hypertension is a "silent killer""
Hypertension is a very harmful disease, the less severe hypertension will affect the patient's quality of life and work, while the more severe may lead to serious complications or even death.
3, hypertension is the culprit of cardiovascular disease
Hypertension can cause cerebral infarction or cerebral hemorrhage, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction and a series of heart disease, and hypertension can invade the kidneys, leading to kidney insufficiency, or even complete loss of urinary capacity, will appear lower limb edema clinical symptoms.
The most important thing for patients with hypertension is to control their blood pressure not to rise, so how should it be controlled in daily life?
1, reduce the intake of sodium
Many people like to eat heavy food, this habit will lead to the body intake of large amounts of sodium. Sodium is an indispensable element for the human body, but an excessive increase in sodium levels in the body will affect the renin-angiotensin activity of the kidneys, leading to the retention of water and sodium in the cells, and these aspects will lead to an increase in blood pressure. In order to control hypertension, sodium intake needs to be reduced.
2、Control the heart rate
Increased heart rate will lead to increased cardiac output, which will increase blood volume and increase vascular pressure, leading to hypertension, and will also cause inadequate blood return, leading to high blood pressure when the heart is diastolic.
3、Inhibit renin-angiotensin system activity
Renin-angiotensin is an important system for blood pressure maintenance, renin can promote the production of angiotensin and the binding of receptors, excessive production of angiotensin will lead to arterial vasoconstriction, myocardial contraction strengthens, resulting in increased blood pressure, so the controlled inhibition of renin-angiotensin system not overactive, will also control the condition of hypertension.
Hypertension is a chronic disease, we often see hypertension will lead to coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, cerebral infarction, cerebral hemorrhage, kidney function decline, causing a variety of complications, feel very frightening, and even some friends have always had a pessimistic view that they may not live long after suffering from hypertension.
But hypertension produces such complications mainly because the situation of hypertension is not controlled as soon as possible and in a timely manner, and also not actively and long-term control of blood pressure in a stable range, only then, the body's arteries and blood vessels will be under excessive pressure for a long time, and then gradually appear chronic and acute complications, if the blood pressure is well controlled, the risk of these complications will be greatly reduced. As long as people with hypertension are able to control their blood pressure over time, their life expectancy will improve and there is absolutely no need to be overly concerned.
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