Hypertension, also known as high blood pressure or high blood pressure, is increased or sustained or intermittent elevation of blood pressure above 140 / 90 mm Hg (millimeters of mercury). Many people express the tension using only the first figures in our previous case they correspond to 14-9.

Hypertension can affect all types of person, in fact everyone knows someone who suffers from hypertension. Most do not experience symptoms when you have high blood pressure without complications, for this reason also called the “silent murderer. Hypertension can be primary or secondary key and, when their origin can be attributed to some alteration. Essential hypertension is that no known cause and is responsible for about 90% of all hypertension cases in people over 45 years of age.

Most cases of essential hypertension can be controlled with medication and above all, changes in lifestyle.

Hypertension, but not symptoms, should be treated as short, medium or long term lead to the following complications:

Hypertensive heart disease: a late complication that arises because as the heart pumps against elevated pressure in blood vessels, the left ventricle becomes enlarged and the amount of blood pumped per minute decreases. If not treated, can present a picture of congestive heart failure, characterized by symptoms such as involuntary weight gain fluid accumulation, edema of the feet and ankles that is noticeable especially in the afternoon or evening, inflammation abdomen caused by fluid retention, pronounced neck veins because there is no proper drainage to the heart, shortness of breath which may be so severe that it produces the smallest effort, difficulty sleeping, fatigue, weakness, fainting poor blood perfusion, feeling the heartbeat, palpitations, cough, decreased urine output (oliguria) Need to urinate at night (nocturia) (more…)