Every year on October 8th is National Hypertension Day, high blood pressure is a very difficult chronic disease. So far, no drug has been developed that can completely overcome and cure it. Once a patient with high blood pressure is diagnosed, it will bring great inconvenience to the patient's life, because they need to take long-term medication to stabilize the growth of blood pressure.

There are more and more people with high blood pressure. If you think that high blood pressure is the patent of the elderly, then you are very wrong, because now high blood pressure patients are not divided into men, women, young and old, and the probability of young people suffering from high blood pressure has increased significantly, which has seriously troubled people's health.

What are the factors that cause high blood pressure?

First, long-term drinking

In the process of drinking alcohol, acetaldehyde is synthesized in the liver, and acetaldehyde can relax blood vessels. As a result, many people experience a drop in blood pressure after drinking alcohol.

Over the next period of time, alcohol increases the heart rate and increases the contractility of the heart muscle. Blood vessels constrict abnormally, so that blood pressure starts to rise after drinking alcohol, and it rises for a long time, which induces high blood pressure.

Second, the wrong medication

As we all know, once suffering from high blood pressure, patients usually need to take antihypertensive drugs for a long time to control blood pressure. It is true that medication can control blood pressure when used correctly, but if the wrong medication is used, it can lead to adverse symptoms, including dizziness.

Therefore, if a patient with high blood pressure develops dizziness, the first thing to consider is whether it is caused by improper medication. For example, when they do not know exactly how and how much to use the drug, they are more likely to experience adverse symptoms from overdose.

Third, don't like sports and cause obesity

As they grow older, the vast majority of middle-aged and elderly people become lazy and are not used to exercising, which leads to the accumulation of body fat and energy, thus forming body fat. If you are overweight, your weight can affect your blood pressure and lead to high blood pressure.

When it comes to the damage of hypertension to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, the first thing that comes to my mind is cerebral infarction, cerebral thrombosis, myocardial infarction, cerebral hemorrhage, stroke, myocardial infarction, etc. So why does high blood pressure cause these diseases? This is mainly because when blood pressure is elevated for a long time, arterial and vascular hardening can lead to various cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

In 2021, the "new blood pressure standard" will be released. It is no longer 120/80. Is your blood pressure normal under the self-test?

There may be some people who have always regarded the standard value of blood pressure as 120/80mmHg , especially some elderly friends, they have always used this standard as their reference standard, in fact, the International Society of Hypertension has made a new standard for this standard. Adjust, please refer to it.

According to the 2021 "Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Hypertension in China", the new blood pressure standard value in 2021 should be 130/85 . If the blood pressure within this range is normal, then you are not considered high blood pressure.

16~65 years old, different age stages, the comparison table of human blood pressure standards

You can also refer to this table to see the value of the specific age group, and check your own blood pressure level to see if it is normal.