11/18/2012

Menopause is associated with hypertension?

Lesbians often occurs in women after menopause blood pressure gradually increased, some doctors believe that postmenopausal hormone changes in the pathogenesis of hypertension plays a role, some doctors think may be postmenopausal weight index ( BMI ) played a key role in the increase.

In fact, postmenopausal hormone changes can cause weight gain, but also make your blood pressure changes in salt in the diet is more sensitive, which in turn caused blood pressure rises, for some women, postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy also promotes blood pressure rising.

Hypertension is a hazard to human health of important diseases, is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease, known as the invisible killer, although hypertension disease is relatively large, but not terrible, because we have ways to control it, for women, both premenopausal and postmenopausal, in order to better control of blood pressure, the need to maintain a healthy life mode of.

1 pay attention to diet, maintain an ideal body weight.

2 healthy diet, eat the whole area as far as possible, eat more vegetables and fruits, reduce cholesterol and saturated fatty acid intake

3 reduction in dietary salt intake, daily control within 6g.

4 strengthen the exercise

5 alcohol limit, daily alcohol intake in male than female alcohol 30g/ days, not more than 15g/ days, if not in the habit of drinking do not drink.

6 smoking cessation.

Through these healthy life change, if your blood pressure is still high, or a combination of diabetes, coronary heart disease clinical situation, your doctor may recommend taking antihypertensive drugs.



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