Why do you have high blood pressure? Doctor: Most of its incidence is related to these factors, so we need to be vigilant

"Hypertension" is a disease that everyone must have heard of in daily life. This is a chronic disease with elevated arterial blood pressure as the main symptom.

　　However, the scary thing is that it is not as simple as excessive arterial blood pressure. Behind the high blood pressure, there are many serious and even fatal complications, including heart disease, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, kidney disease, etc.!

　　Relevant data surveys show that the prevalence of hypertension in China has been increasing in recent years, and the total number of patients has approached 300 million . Among them, 90-95% are actually patients with essential hypertension , that is, based on the current medical level, the cause of hypertension in patients cannot be completely determined, and the cause of hypertension is very complex.

　　However, although the etiology of hypertension has not been fully clarified in clinical practice, many causes related to hypertension have indeed been found, including the following aspects:

　　1. Genetic factors

　　If you observe diligently, you will find that high blood pressure does show a certain familial aggregation tendency. In fact, this performance has also been confirmed by clinical professional data. If both parents of a person have high blood pressure, the probability of the next generation suffering from high blood pressure can reach about 46% .

　　If one parent is diagnosed with high blood pressure, the chance of developing high blood pressure in the offspring is about 28% . From a clinical point of view, hypertension is caused by polygenic inheritance, and 30-50% of hypertensive patients have a genetic background;

2. Age

　　There are many popular science articles claiming that in recent years, hypertension has gradually become younger.

　　However, it is undeniable that high blood pressure is indeed directly related to age. The more age increases, the higher the possibility of future illness will be , and the vast majority of hypertensive patients are actually concentrated in among middle-aged and elderly people over 40 years old.

　　The reason for this is related to factors such as increasing age, aging of blood vessels, and increasing accumulation of injuries;

3. Mental factors

　　A related research survey shows that there is also a close relationship between mental factors and high blood pressure. For example, a person's long-term high mental tension and anxiety, easy agitation and anger, or long-term exposure to noise, bad visual stimuli , etc., may cause blood pressure to rise.

　　This is related to the excitation of sympathetic nerves, the operation of the adrenal-angiotensin system, the secretion of catecholamines and other hormones , which can promote vasospasm and increase blood pressure;

　　4. Living habits

　　Although it is based on genetics and increasing age, the incidence of more patients with essential hypertension is actually affected by acquired bad habits.

　　This includes unreasonable dietary structure (excessive sodium intake, low-potassium diet, intake of a lot of saturated fat, long-term alcoholism), long-term smoking, long-term staying up late, sedentary causes obesity , etc., which will have a certain impact on blood pressure, In particular, obese people are more likely to develop high blood pressure in the future.

　　In addition to the above factors, if there is diabetes, apnea syndrome, thyroid disease, kidney disease , etc., affected by the disease, the patient may also develop high blood pressure, but this kind of high blood pressure is clinically known as secondary Hypertension. When the primary disease is controlled, blood pressure will gradually drop, or even return to normal levels.

　　All in all, high blood pressure is indeed a hereditary disease, but it is also related to multiple factors. Moreover, in the case of family gatherings, it cannot be ruled out that the common eating habits, living environment, and personalities influence each other.

　　Therefore, when we cannot change the facts of genes, age and aging, we can only prevent and reduce the probability of the disease by starting the day after tomorrow.