With the continuous improvement of people's material life, it also leads to some diseases. Among the diseases endangering human health, hypertension belongs to the most dangerous disease. Many elderly patients with hypertension are very dangerous. Therefore, the prevention of hypertension is particularly important. To do a good job in the prevention of hypertension can effectively control the disease.
In the prevention of hypertension, we should start from the small things in life. Smoking can cause hypertension. Studies have shown that heart rate and systolic blood pressure increase by 5-20 beats / min and 10-25 mmHg per minute after smoking a cigarette. Why? Because nicotine (nicotine) in tobacco leaves can excite the central and sympathetic nerves, accelerate the heart rate, and also promote the adrenal gland to release a large amount of catecholamine, which makes the small arteries constrict, resulting in increased blood pressure. Nicotine also stimulates chemical receptors in the blood vessels, reflexively causing blood pressure to rise.
To do a good job in the prevention of hypertension, we should start from quitting smoking. Stage a large number of smoking will also promote atherosclerosis, small artery intima gradually thickening, so that the whole blood vessel gradually hardening. At the same time, due to the increase of carbon monoxide and hemoglobin content in the blood of smokers, the oxygen content of blood is reduced, the oxygen content of arterial wall lipid is increased, and the formation of atherosclerosis is accelerated. Compared with smoking, the health benefits of drinking alcohol are controversial.
Smoking is harmful to health. As we all know, hypertensive patients must make up their minds to quit smoking for the sake of their condition. The behavior of quitting smoking in the prevention of hypertension is not only for patients with hypertension, but also beneficial for those without hypertension.