Your blood pressure do you "have" 
 
 
On May 18, 2014, either 
 

Source: kwangmyong - guangming daily, 

        Editor's note 
 
 
        There are over 300 million hypertension patients in our country, but the awareness and treatment of high blood pressure is only 42.6% and 34.1%, control is only 9.3%. Every year as the younger trend of developing hypertension, patients with high blood pressure is a big group, patients with high blood pressure with the United States, compared with a 81% awareness and 50% of control China's population of high blood pressure is unknown "know", nor "tube". 
 
 
        On the second weekend of may each year for the world of high blood pressure, here, we want to remind readers that the prevention and treatment of high blood pressure, to start with "know your blood pressure. 
 
 
        Invisible killer, discover how early 
 
 
        Author: Sun Ningling Deputy director of the Beijing university people's hospital heart center 
 
 
        Hypertension is the world's highest incidence of disease, but this kind of disease is silent, silent, it is difficult to be noticed. It is called invisible killer, because a lot of hypertensive patients without symptoms. According to statistics, China currently has 138 million hypertension patients is don't know if I have high blood pressure. Because they usually don't think I have the symptoms of disease, so there would be no blood pressure monitoring, don't know their blood pressure status. 
 
 
        In fact, low awareness has become our country hypertension prevention and treatment of the most need to solve the problem. If you don't know how much your blood pressure high, how can you go to manage your blood pressure? So, the prevention and treatment of high blood pressure, first of all to know their blood pressure, for high blood pressure for early detection. Clinical recommendation is that people around the age of 30 blood pressure measured at least once a year. 
 
 
        But not every measure accurately reflect their own blood pressure condition, because of high blood pressure itself has concealment. It may be in hospital is normal, measurement time measurement is high in the home, this kind of "hidden" hindered the early detection of high blood pressure, leads to misdiagnosis. At present, this kind of hidden hypertensive patients account for 10% of the hypertensive population, and there are different levels of target organ damage, face greater health risks than ordinary patients with high blood pressure, the higher mortality rate. 
 
 
        Therefore, to do early detection, to measure blood pressure regularly. The high risk population can be found that hypertension combined with physical examination and family self-test. The European Union and China's hypertension guidelines are recommended office blood pressure and family hypertension diagnosis, regular blood pressure measurement is the only way to timely find high blood pressure. Given the current our country younger trend of high blood pressure, recommends that all adults blood pressure measured at least once a year. Those who eat too much salt, fat, have a family history of high blood pressure and large groups, such as long-term mental stress, blood pressure should be measured once every six months. 
 
 
        Control of blood pressure, control the risk factors 
 
 
        Found himself had high blood pressure, and we will to manage and control the blood pressure. But to reduce health risks, control of blood pressure is not enough, only notice on blood pressure outside the control of smoking, diabetes, obesity and other risk factors. 
 
 
        High blood pressure is often associated with these risk factors, such as age, abdominal obesity, smoking, dyslipidemia, hyperglycemia, and family history of early onset of cardiovascular disease. If these risk factors and increased blood pressure together, risk will rise significantly. 
 
 
        From my experience, visit the vast majority of patients is not a simple hypertension, but with risk factors, and there are two or more basic, rarely is a single. New patients more than 60% with obesity, smoking and other risk factors. America, according to a study by two or more risk factors of patients with hypertension combined, more than 80% of the total number of patients with high blood pressure. In 2009, according to a study in our country our country hypertension risk factors combined ratio above 90%. 
 
 
        Visible, is one of the few simple hypertension, with multiple risk factors exist. In the past we only talk about high blood pressure control, rarely talk about the control of risk factors, we strengthen the education in this field in recent years, our doctors and patients pay more attention to the risks. The more risk factors, the more serious the degree. A high pressure from 140 to 159 patients with mild hypertension, if there are two risk factors is a moderate, three risk factors are high risk. High-risk patients with ten years at least a 20% risk of cardiovascular disease. 
 
 
        To this end, China's health authorities launched a risk assessment project, requires each hypertension patients should not only know their blood pressure, blood pressure should also be aware of risk factors, including blood glucose, blood lipids, obesity, family history, etc. 
 
 
        To early treatment, change the bad habits 
 
 
        At present, the risk of high blood pressure in patients with known, two-thirds are not treated. Why is that? It is thought he just mild hypertension, don't feel need to be treated. That hypertension is a disease, slow is not acute, don't try so hard to see a doctor. Both reasons caused the patients timely treatment actively. 
 
 
        Clinically that early treatment of hypertension is very beneficial, it can protect cardiovascular and cerebrovascular, also can easily set down blood pressure control. Because of high blood pressure in the early days of the time, could have lesions in the blood vessels, leading to stroke, myocardial infarction, or atherosclerosis, etc. To level 3 to treat high blood pressure, blood pressure is difficult to control. To merge the cerebrovascular disease, is harder to control. If it has been delayed, missed the best treatment opportunity, cardiovascular damage has been developed from quantitative change to qualitative change, this kind of circumstance to start treatment, have a smaller chance of cure. Therefore, after know you have high blood pressure, must early treatment. 
 
 
        Treatment as soon as possible, and to do a good job of prevention. First of all, to change their habits and customs, including limit salt, stop smoking, lose weight, early to bed, and other sports. There are statistics show that reflect the status of human obesity BMI, body mass index, an additional unit of blood pressure success rate fell by 4.6%. Appropriate aerobic and anaerobic exercise, can improve the success rate of blood pressure. 
 
 
        Secondly, to test their cardiovascular risk factors, to understand the degree of danger of high blood pressure. Again, take medicine on time, do not delay the drug or drug leakage. Finally, should be regular visits, according to dangerous levels, such as half a year, three months, or once a month. Clinical data showed that frequency of visits each layer, reduce the success rate of blood pressure will be reduced by 11%. Often see a doctor to understand changes in blood pressure, and then change accordingly, treatment or changes in lifestyle. 
 
 
        In addition, we also advocate the patients with high blood pressure self-test of blood pressure, it can further improve their attention and monitoring of treatment. Patients usually can self-test of blood pressure actively, understand the blood pressure at any time, for to better management and control of high blood pressure, finally realizes the target blood pressure.