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Disease profile

  • Disease name: hypertension
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  • Department: Department of Cardiology
  • Symptoms and signs: headache, mostly in the back of the brain, accompanied by nausea, vomiting and other symptoms. If you often feel headache and nausea and vomiting at the same time, it may be a signal to transform to malignant hypertension.

Causes of hypertension

I Genetic factors

Heredity: About half of patients with hypertension have a family history.

II Environmental factors

1. Diet. 2. Mental stress. 3. Environment and occupation: noisy working environment and excessive mental labor are prone to hypertension.

III Others

1. Weight: The incidence of obesity is high. 2. Contraceptives. 3. Sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome. 4. Age: the incidence rate increases with age, and the incidence rate is high for people over 40 years old. 5. Salt: people who consume more salt have a high incidence of hypertension. Some people think that if salt is less than 2g/day, hypertension almost does not occur; 3-4g/day, the incidence of hypertension is 3%, 4-15g/day, the incidence is 33.15%, and the incidence of hypertension>20g/day is 30%.

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The doctor said

Huang Li
Head of Department of Cardiology, Sino Japanese Friendship Hospital

Treatment of Hypertension with Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine
Hypertension is a systemic disease characterized by elevated arterial pressure, which may be accompanied by organic changes.

Wen Shaojun
Beijing Anzhen Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University

Prevention and treatment of hypertension
Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases are one of the biggest killers of human beings, and hypertension is a very serious risk factor.
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