Veracruz, Veracruz – High blood pressure can cause heart attack in the heart, brain and cause chronic kidney failure if not properly controlled, Torres said Andres Gonzalez, a specialist in Internal Medicine at General Hospital No. 71 of the Mexican Social Security Institute Social. Torres Gonzalez also said that blood pressure is a measure of the force exerted against the walls of the arteries as the heart pumps blood through the body and added that normal blood pressure is recorded when measuring less than 120/80 mmHg most of the time, high blood pressure or hypertension, is observed when blood pressure is de140/90 mmHg or above it. When blood pressure rises, said the internist, we can speak of serious complications of hypertension and may increase the likelihood of suffering a stroke, heart attack, heart failure, kidney disease and early death. Risk factors for hypertension are suffering: being African American, be obese or overweight, being frequently stressed or anxious, drinking too much, eating too much salt, smoking, diabetes and family history of hypertension, he said. There are usually no symptoms of the disease therefore people can develop heart and kidney problems without knowing they have high blood pressure, if you have a severe headache, nausea or vomiting, confusion, changes in vision or nasal bleeding, may have a serious and dangerous form of hypertension. So you must go to his Family Medicine Unit at the Social Security PREVENIMSS module, where the disease can be detected and installed the recommended treatment to prevent further damage to their high weight scale and to rule out other diseases such as diabetes and obesity, said the doctor. It also recommended that adults over 18 made your blood pressure checked regularly, eat healthily, drink lots of water, exercising daily, at least 30 minutes, stop smoking, reduce the amount of alcohol that is taken, the amount of salt consumed, avoid stress and keep the body weight according to height, in addition to seek changes in lifestyle, such as daily exercise, sleep 8 hours a day, and so on. . .
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