One in 3 male adults in Jiangsu suffers from high blood pressure: smoking cessation and alcohol

Today is the 19th National High Blood Pressure Day. According to the latest data from the Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, one out of every three male adults in Jiangsu is hypertensive; among urban residents, there is one hypertension per three adults. The reporter learned that behind the huge crowd of people with hypertension is the "heavy taste" of the diet. The amount of salt eaten by the people in Jiangsu has exceeded the amount recommended by the state by nearly one time.

1 hypertension in 3 adult males

The reporter learned from the Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention that the prevalence of hypertension in people aged 18 years and over in our province was 28.9%, including 34% of men and 24.7% of women; in addition, the prevalence in urban areas was 34.8%, compared with 25.3% in rural areas. "This means that one out of three adult males suffers from hypertension; among the urban population, one out of three adults has one."

According to experts from the Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, hypertension is the most important risk factor for heart disease, stroke, kidney disease and death. According to statistics, China has at least 270 million hypertensive patients, 2 million deaths per year are related to hypertension, 71% of stroke deaths and 54% of myocardial infarction deaths are due to high blood pressure. About 41% of the national deaths are caused by cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

In addition, the statistics found an interesting phenomenon, the prevalence of hypertension in men was significantly higher than that of women, almost nearly 10 percentage points. In an interview, the chief physician of the Department of Cardiology at the First Hospital of Nanjing City, Gong Hexin believes that hypertension is more related to lifestyle on the one hand and adult males have a higher smoking rate. Smoking is an important risk factor for hypertension. In addition, adult males have a lot of work pressure and frequent entertainment. The amount of salt intake is also much higher than women in the same age group. On the other hand, before menopause, women have higher levels of estrogen, which has a protective effect on blood vessels and reduces the risk of hypertension. After the menopause, this protection is gone and the prevalence of hypertension is similar to that of men.

High blood pressure is nearly 1 times higher than salt

Corresponding to the high blood pressure army, the people in Jiangsu suffer from excessive salt intake, and a large part of them can be described as “sick from the mouth”. Among the risk factors that cause hypertension, high sodium and low potassium diets are important risk factors for hypertension in Chinese population. Dietary sodium intake increased by an average of 2 grams per day, systolic blood pressure (low pressure) would increase by an average of 2 mmHg, and diastolic pressure (high pressure) would increase by an average of 1.2 mmHg.

According to a recent baseline survey of salt reduction in our province, the daily salt intake of 18-69-year old residents in our province is as high as 11.0 grams (including 11.5 grams for men, 10.6 grams for women, 12.0 grams for cities, and 10.4 grams for rural areas). This intake is nearly 1 times the recommended amount of 6 grams for the "Chinese Dietary Guidelines".

At the same time, the survey population showed that the awareness rate of salt intake was 60% per person per day, 30.0%, awareness of low sodium salt was 32.1%, 70% of patients had no knowledge of the low-salt diet, but also laid a hidden danger for high prevalence. (

Adolescents excessively surf the Internet and cause a significant increase in the risk of hypertension

Researchers at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, USA, said they found a link between teens’ excessive use of the Internet and high blood pressure. According to the results of the research published by the hospital's researchers in the School Nursing Journal, adolescents spend more than 14 hours a week on the Internet, and their risk of developing hypertension is greatly increased. The agency found in a survey of 134 severe Internet users of adolescents that 26 subjects had severe hypertension.

According to Liu Xin, chief physician of the Center for the Treatment of Unresolved Diseases in Nanjing Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, some beneficial substances in the human body are produced only during muscle exercise. They play a key role in the digestion of fat and sugar. They often sit on the Internet for a while, and some important ones. The metabolism will also slow down and become a factor that induces hypertension.

Do "5510 half" control your blood pressure

Wang Dali, director of the Department of Cardiology at the 454 Hospital of the People's Liberation Army, said that hypertension is a comprehensive risk factor. The main complications are stroke and coronary heart disease. The sooner you intervene, the sooner you benefit. Improve lifestyle is the basic treatment of hypertension, the main contents are: 1 limit sodium salt <5g ~ 6g / day; 2 obesity overweight patients lose weight more than 5kg; 3 limited wine, daily liquor does not exceed 1 two; 4 quit smoking; Balanced diet, eat vegetables half a catty a day; 6 exercise more than half an hour a day. "Half time in the 5510 half, the pressure reduction is easier to achieve."

Clinically, there are patients who are concerned about the preferential selection of first-line drugs. Afterwards, there are no good medicines or good medicines. In the future, there will be no effect or drug-free choice. Wang Dali reminded us that it is important to think deeply that the important purpose of hypertension treatment is to reduce the risk of complications. It is not possible to “leave room” to wait for complications and then use drugs with good effects and fewer side effects. It is necessary to “pass the good days first” and choose “good medicine” as much as possible.

Six kinds of people susceptible to high blood pressure

A large number of studies have shown that high blood pressure can damage the arterial endothelium, cause arteriosclerosis, and accelerate the progression of arteriosclerosis. High blood pressure has become the most important risk factor for stroke. Professor Liu Xinfeng, director of the Department of Neurology at the Nanjing Military Region General Hospital, reminded that the following 6 categories are more likely to suffer from hypertension.

1. Obesity Because of the increase in body fat and body weight, the blood volume also increases, so that the heart burden and vascular resistance increase, it is prone to high blood pressure.

2. People who like to eat salty food The amount of salt that is ingested is more than sodium, and sodium deters the water in the body, which increases the volume of blood and causes high blood pressure.

3. People who drink more alcohol for a long time are prone to high blood pressure due to alcohol damage to arterial blood vessels in the body, drinking more than two or two drinks a day, the blood pressure will increase, if at the same time smoking increases the blood pressure.

4. People with long-term nervousness and nervousness are prone to high blood pressure. Although thin people do not have as much blood volume as fat people, they can also cause high blood pressure due to other factors. Thin people must not ignore their blood pressure.

5. Hypertension genetic factors account for about 30%. People with a family history of hypertension have bad habits and unpleasant stimuli and are prone to high blood pressure. However, if you develop good habits, such as eating less salt, not smoking, not drinking, not obese, you can also not be high blood pressure.

6. Older people are more susceptible to high blood pressure than younger people. With increasing age, the vascular elasticity is poor, and the resistance of the small arteries increases, so the blood pressure increases accordingly. Long-lasting high blood pressure causes arterial wall stiffness and changes in the arteries, which are both causal. (Source: Xinhua Newspaper Network Author: Qi at Bing)