Health Tips For The Patients with Hypertension

Hypertension or high blood pressure is also called is a chronic condition in which the blood pressure in the artery wall (vascular net) increased. This condition is known as "the silent killer" because it rarely has obvious symptoms.

For most people, to get enough sleep is very difficult to obtain, it is all due to busy daily activities that make them unable to obtain the ideal sleep time, which is about 7 to 8 hours a day.

However, did you, in fact there are many people who can sleep with the time beyond the time that ideal, but instead of getting a positive impact on the health of the body, precisely according to health experts if someone often sleep excessively, especially if he has a problem of high blood pressure, then he actually increase the risk of stroke.

A study done by the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, which is where the proficiency level of research carried out on 24 thousand participants of adults who develop hypertension in the United States. From all these participants, there are some participants who tend to sleep more than 8 hours per day, and the ang Interestingly, this group actually increase the risk of stroke by 14 percent.

Instead, the group of participants who slept less than 5 hours a day also increases the risk of stroke by up to 5 percent. In addition, patients with hypertension who slept normal hours it has the lowest risk of stroke.

Health experts who participated in the study mention if it is still not known why patients with hypertension that excessive sleep may increase the risk of stroke. However, in light of this fact, it is good for people with high blood pressure in order to keep the hours of sleep in the ideal time course, which is 7 to 8 hours every day. In addition, improving diet and overall lifestyle is to start reducing salt intake, avoiding cigarettes and alcoholic beverages, and also increase intake of fruits and vegetables during meals, do not forget to always keep your weight in order to remain an ideal, and also began regular exercise. By implementing this healthy lifestyle, high blood pressure is expected to soon decrease and the risk of dangerous diseases like heart disease also decreased.