Professor Guo said that some patients' blood pressure is basically normal and suddenly their blood pressure rises abnormally. After inquiry, they learned that the patient took several wild ginseng to "replenish" his body, and his blood pressure returned to normal immediately after stopping taking the medicine. She reminded patients not to take wild ginseng and white ginseng at will to avoid danger. She added: "Although American ginseng is different from wild ginseng, it is a drug blindly suitable for middle-aged people, but patients with hypertension must take a small amount after their blood pressure stabilizes."
At the end of the interview, Professor Guo once again stressed: "The best tonic for patients with hypertension is to maintain a healthy mental state, insist on taking antihypertensive drugs and exercise every day. Only in this way can we rejuvenate, lower blood pressure and blood lipids, and live a long and healthy life. "
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Misunderstanding of hypertension
Experts point out that antihypertensive drugs are the best "health products"
Biography of experts
Guo is the chief physician and professor of the Department of Hypertension in Ruijin Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine. He is currently the director of Shanghai Institute of Hypertension, the director of China Health Education Association's Hypertension Health Education (Shanghai) Center, and the executive director and chief expert of China Health Education Association.
● Visiting hours are Monday afternoon.
When interviewing Professor Guo in the hypertension ward of Ruijin Hospital, she was busy examining a patient. When the patient asked her what health care products she ate could enhance her resistance, Professor Guo simply replied: "No health care products or supplements. For patients with hypertension, antihypertensive drugs are the best health care products. "
Professor Guo told reporters that about half of patients with hypertension are obese, and half of obese people are hypertensive. The primary problem of controlling hypertension should be to lose weight. If you lose weight 1kg, your blood pressure will drop by about 1 mmhg. In addition, many patients go astray because of their vague understanding of some problems.
Myth 1: Don't drop your blood pressure too low, it will be dangerous.
Professor Guo said that the ideal blood pressure of patients with hypertension is lower than 120/80 mm Hg, which is an international unified standard. According to the survey of nearly 1 10,000 hypertensive patients, when the blood pressure is above 1 15/75 mm Hg, the incidence of cardiovascular diseases will increase 1 times for every 20/ 10 mm Hg increase.
Only in some special cases, we should be careful not to lower the blood pressure too low: elderly patients with increased systolic blood pressure and patients with stroke, coronary heart disease and myocardial infarction.
Myth 2: It doesn't matter if your blood pressure is high when you are old.
With the increase of age, systolic blood pressure will inevitably increase. However, many elderly people think that their blood pressure is high and they don't need treatment. In fact, the normal blood pressure standard of the elderly should be the same as that of the young. Moreover, the risk of cardiovascular accidents such as stroke in the elderly is actually higher than that of middle-aged people with the same blood pressure level. Statistics show that effective antihypertensive treatment for elderly hypertension will reduce the incidence and mortality of cardiovascular diseases by 20% ~ 50%.
Myth 3: Deep-sea fish oil and lecithin can soften blood vessels in patients with hypertension.
Many patients do not follow the doctor's advice to control blood pressure, but eat deep-sea fish oil, lecithin and so on. It is wrong to think that this can soften and harden blood vessels every day.
Unsaturated fatty acids in fish oil can reduce blood lipid level and inhibit platelet aggregation, which is beneficial to patients with heart disease. But this has not been confirmed, but it is certain that eating fish oil is absolutely ineffective in preventing coronary restenosis. On the contrary, after taking a large amount of fish oil, there may be bleeding tendency, abnormal liver function, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.
Lecithin is a by-product extracted from soybean and egg yolk, which has no special beneficial effect on blood vessels of patients with hypertension.
Myth 4: Hypertension patients "tonic" to enhance immune function.
Professor Guo said that some patients' blood pressure is basically normal and suddenly their blood pressure rises abnormally. After inquiry, they learned that the patient took several wild ginseng to "replenish" his body, and his blood pressure returned to normal immediately after stopping taking the medicine. She reminded patients not to take wild ginseng and white ginseng at will to avoid danger. She added: "Although American ginseng is different from wild ginseng, it is a drug blindly suitable for middle-aged people, but patients with hypertension must take a small amount after their blood pressure stabilizes."
At the end of the interview, Professor Guo once again stressed: "The best tonic for patients with hypertension is to maintain a healthy mental state, insist on taking antihypertensive drugs and exercise every day. Only in this way can we rejuvenate, lower blood pressure and blood lipids, and live a long and healthy life. "