Hypertension patients should strengthen daily home blood pressure self-monitoring

Hypertension is a chronic disease, is to destroy the heart, brain, kidney and other organs of the " invisible killer ", once diagnosed, it should be taken seriously. However many hypertensive patients on their blood pressure fluctuations master is not clear, some patients because no symptoms or no complications, is less concerned about their blood pressure level, such as in the treatment of no start, leading to further deterioration caused by hypertension or other more serious diseases, these phenomena it is often seen.

At present our country adult hypertensive diagnostic criteria are: SBP ≥140mmHg and ( or ) DBP ≥ 90mmHg. Primary hypertension, although no cure, but hypertension on the heart, brain and kidney damage is often associated with blood pressure height closely related, while the large scale clinical trials to prove, antihypertensive treatment can reduce the patients with heart, cerebrovascular disease incidence and mortality, therefore take effective treatment measures to lower blood pressure, reach the target value ( blood pressure < 140/90mmHg ) is the hard truth. Blood pressure is easily influenced by environmental, activity, emotion and medication irregularly and other factors and fluctuate, so the hypertension patients to regular home self-measurement of blood pressure, blood pressure as much as possible below 140/90mmHg. According to the survey, at present Chinese hypertensive patients family self testing rate is very low, only less than 7% can keep blood pressure every day, more than 40% only in patients with dizziness, headache and other symptoms occurred only when measuring blood pressure, 3.1% of the patients even half a year to measure blood pressure once, and these often will cause delays and serious illness the consequences of.

Regular home self-measurement of blood pressure in patients with essential hypertension blood pressure level is about a very reliable and practical method, and stable control of hypertension, prevention of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases of effective measures. According to the need of patients in different period of time every day many measurements, can be understood in the daily life of dynamic change of blood pressure status; patients can feel clearly taking drugs, alcohol, salt restriction, weight on blood pressure control means the positive role of correct medication, irregular, not considered non-drug treatment of bad habits. At the same time, can improve patients ' cognition and disease control, confidence, improve the control condition, reduce the cost of treatment.

It is recommended for patients with hypertension families choose to purchase in line with international standards, high accuracy, convenience and strong electronic sphygmomanometer and mercury sphygmomanometer, even without medical help can accurate understanding of various state of blood pressure changes, grasp the antihypertensive efficacy of the drug, the blood pressure, reduce cardiovascular morbidity.