Hypertension is a chronic disease, and patients should pay attention to at least the following points in their daily lives.
1. Diet should be light:
Patients with hypertension should not eat too salty food. They should eat more vegetables and easily digestible food, and eat less food rich in fat, especially animal fat and internal organs, to prevent obesity and promote atherosclerosis. For the elderly, frying should not be used in cooking, as this type of food will increase the fat content.
2. Keep a cheerful mood:
As the saying goes, "A smile makes you young." Practice has proved that people with a cheerful and optimistic mood tend to live longer. You should always maintain a happy mood and cultivate an optimistic, cheerful, and humorous personality. On the contrary, if you are in a state of excitement, tension, or sorrow all day long, and you are obsessed with trivial matters, it will lead to a faster heartbeat, increased blood pressure, and increased blood viscosity, causing the already high blood pressure to continue to rise, inducing serious complications such as hypertensive crisis and cerebral vascular rupture.
3. Insist on exercise to enhance physical fitness:
Daily physical exercise can not only increase energy consumption, adjust the body's energy balance, prevent obesity, but also promote cardiovascular function, enhance myocardial contractility, reduce vascular tension, dilate coronary arteries, lower blood pressure, and also lower blood triglycerides and blood viscosity. These are very beneficial for preventing coronary heart disease and hypertension.
4. Measure blood pressure regularly:
It is best for the family to have its own blood pressure monitor. It is best to measure blood pressure once in the morning and once in the evening every day, so as to adjust the drug dose appropriately according to the blood pressure and keep the blood pressure relatively stable.