How to forget about hypertension and what will help best

A healthy lifestyle is an important part of prevention of many diseases, including hypertension. Studies have shown that the prevention of hypertension works best maintaining weight within the boundaries of normal, according to the vesti.ru.

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Only considered the influence of five types of activities related to healthy lifestyle:

Abstinence from cigarettes.

Use a week no more than seven servings of alcohol for women and 14 for men.

Proper nutrition.

Maintaining a proper level of physical activity (at least 150 minutes per week of exercise intensity is not below average).

Maintaining weight within the normal range.

The work involved more than 4,700 volunteers. In 1985-1986, when they started the study, they were 18-30 years old. In the next 25 years, scientists have observed then changes in their blood pressure (at this time, there were eight surveys, in addition to which the participants talked about their way of life). It turned out that maintaining a healthy weight affect the pressure best – the people who controlled your weight, high blood pressure in adulthood, there were 41% less likely. If the participant followed the four remaining items – the risk of developing hypertension decreased by 27%. Separately proper diet and regular exercise the pressure is not affected. Abstinence from alcohol and Smoking reduced the pressure, but not so much.

Thus, normal weight was “key” to the health of the heart and blood vessels.