Overweight and high blood pressure

According to world statistics, all overweight men and women suffer from high blood pressure or are predisposed to it. The diagnosis of hypertension is most often received by individuals with morbid obesity or predominant accumulation of fat in the abdomen. Weight loss causes a decrease in pressure if the disease has not left irreversible consequences.

The relationship of pathological conditions

The relationship between high blood pressure and weight gain is quite simple and can be understood by any patient. Every kilogram of fat acquired, or even a smaller amount, requires a blood supply to maintain life. In this regard, the vascular network sprouts to the fat cells, which creates an additional burden on the heart. The most important muscular organ must expel blood with greater intensity, which invariably increases the pressure in the vessels.

Eliminating five extra pounds of fat mass reduces both indicators of pressure:

• systolic - by five units,
• diastolic - one or two.

Obesity and hypertension are rarely acquired in such a complex

Often they are joined by:

• atherosclerotic vascular disease,
• diabetes.

High blood pressure is detrimental to:

• small vessels of the kidneys
• visual organ,
• brain, and they are target organs for atherosclerosis.

Weight loss eliminates the associated diseases of hypertension. It is possible that if the patient manages to lose weight, this will not save him from developing diabetes, but he will be able to normalize his fat metabolism, in particular, cholesterol. Diet and dosed physical activity will help restore a weak vascular wall and reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes. Weight loss not only gives harmony and ease of movement, but also adds health.

Definition of overweight

In clinical practice, doctors often have situations when the patient claims that he feels great in his weight. Nevertheless, his blood pressure indicators increase, fasting glucose increases, and heart failure appears. For such cases, several options have been adopted by the medical community to calculate the ideal weight for each individual patient. The ideal weight is the body weight at which a person not only feels healthy, but also has no problems with internal organs and the body as a whole.

Ideal weight indicators are:

1. For women, the most effective indicator is the waist. This area of ​​the body in the beautiful half of the population is always narrower than in men, so a significant increase in it may be an indicator of overweight. For women of any physique, it is not desirable to increase the waist by more than 88 cm. Exceeding this indicator is usually combined with advanced forms of hypertension.
2. For both men and women, you can choose a more accurate benchmark that determines overweight. The formula for this indicator requires dividing body weight in kilograms by the product of two measurements of height in meters. Overweight is present in persons whose result exceeds 25 kg / m², obesity - over 30.

Combined treatment

Overweight and malignant hypertension are treated together with diet and exercise. Naturally, the acquisition of hypertension also requires drug therapy, which is prescribed by a doctor. A competent specialist also gives recommendations on changing lifestyle, enriching the diet and the intensity of physical activity.

The main principles that a patient with overweight and hypertension should adhere to are highlighted:

• Hateful kilograms go away if you set the energy consumption correctly. In order to lose weight, you just need to exceed it and not get enough calories when eating. High blood pressure does not go anywhere if you resort to advertised diet pills or fat-burning shorts. Reducing the total amount of fat is possible during liposuction, but in order to lose weight, you can resort to more economical methods.
• In any weight loss and elimination of hypertension, gradualism must be followed. It is recommended to lose excess weight no more than half a kilogram per week, which will effectively reduce blood pressure and maintain the result for a long time. With this mode, the transition to a less restricted diet can be made as safely as possible for one's own health and not expect that excess weight will return again.

• With hypertension, fasting is highly undesirable, which is resorted to by some patients who thus want to lose weight and eliminate high blood pressure. Do not forget that in this way the patient deprives himself not only of extra calories, but also of the most important minerals and vitamins necessary for a weakened heart muscle. Starvation also disrupts all types of metabolism in the body, leading to hypoxia that is undesirable for the brain and kidneys.
• A diet diagnosed with hypertension should be balanced. A calorie deficit in the absence of intense physical activity can be created by introducing fresh vegetables, fruits, dairy products, and cereals into the diet. It is often possible to bring weight and pressure back to normal with the help of fasting days on apples, kefir or other products.

High blood pressure levels can quickly go away along with the loss of excess weight. A balanced diet and an introduction to sports will become faithful assistants in this.