Having a blood pressure greater than 14/9 remains the number one disease in our country in terms of the number of patients who suffer from this excessive pressure in their arteries with all the risks that this implies in particular of myocardial infarction and vascular accidents. cerebral …
But this is nothing new. Where is the news?
That the medical specialists, who are gathered under the banner of the hypertension control committee, are fed up with having the right diagnostic tools and the right drugs to find that in fact, more than half of people do not not treat or do it in dilettante ways. So the numbers go up and, since it is a silent disease, before the big problem, all these people have the false impression that they are protected when they are at risk. Doctors are therefore planning a major screening and information effort so that by 2015, 75% of those who need it are balanced. And then the news is also hypertension. of the woman.
Are woman’s vessels, like her heart, more fragile?
We thought rather the opposite. Female hormones protect the heart but there are two situations that erase this effect: menopause of course, since the hormones are no longer there and as the woman lives much longer, in the long term the problems join those of their companions. . And then parity obliges, the stress, the exhausting work and the cigarettes are from now on shared by the women with the damage which they suppose. Over the past ten years, the frequency of overweight and obesity has increased the most among women in their thirties. There is also pregnancy and the pill, which go hand in hand with hypertension.
And what can we do?
Well, the hypertension committee will make it the theme of its campaign in a few weeks, which will give you the opportunity to detail it to convince women of the importance of taking an early interest in its figures. blood pressure
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