Stress causes of hypertension

Stress causes hypertension

Stress, anxiety levels can raise blood pressure and cause heart disease. 

The body's response to stress

Recently, stress, or tension, anxiety levels, often mentioned a lot in the field of health. The cause of the

phenomenon of stress is different but the body's response to stress, anxiety and often at the same underwent three phases.

Phase alarm:

The daily activities of human psychology who often strengthened, especially through the attention, remembering and thinking. When people are exposed to the elements can cause stress, the functions of the body, especially the sympathetic nervous system strengthening activities that increase blood pressure , heart rate, breathing and muscle tone of corn ... This stage usually occurs rapidly from several minutes to several hours. People may be sudden death at this stage if stress factors encountered sudden, complex and overwhelming. If trying to overcome, the reaction of the body beginning to move into stage adaptation.

Stage adaptation:

This is the continuation phase for the resistance of the body good, can master stressful situations occur. If the high adaptability, the physiological functions of the body will be restored. Conversely, if the recovery does not occur, the body will move on to phase exhausted.

Phase exhausted:

The response of the body against stress phenomena becomes pathological when stressful situations occur suddenly, violently, beyond the ability of the body to adapt. During this period, the change in physiological concentration stage alarm will reappear.

Clinically, the body's response to stress phenomenon will make people sick excitability of both the psychological and physical symptoms such as increased muscle tone with facial tension, action and gestures are rigid, there is pain in the body. In addition, neurological disorders such as tachycardia plant, with pain before the heart, blood pressure , shortness of breath, fainting, sweating, headache, pain in many places, especially in muscles. At the same time the phenomenon of increased sensation, especially hearing the sound should sound normal and becomes upset, irritability, mental restlessness, excitability, behavioral disorders and personality ...

Each has a way to respond to the various stress. The physiological response to stress each person depending on the perception of stimuli that are harmful to themselves or unrecognized. We also depend on our ability to predict and control of harmful situations.

The recognition of our ability to predict and control human situations to occur can affect the impact of stress. These events do not cause stress nature identical in all people. The level of stress depends on the significance of the event and the potential availability as well as the skills and potential availability of each person in dealing with the event. When an event is found to be benign, positive emotions such as joy, love, happiness, excitement, peace will occur. Conversely, when the event is rated as negative effects, negative emotions such as anxiety, fear, guilt, despair or depression appears. These events and stress the positive nature of health promotion. In contrast, stress and negative events occur, but the body's ability to cope, adjust situations ineffective and incomplete as the risk factors leading to poor condition, affecting health including life.

Stress causes cardiovascular disease

In addition to increases in blood pressure effects, the phenomenon of stress can cause cardiovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis and sudden death.

The psychological stress, anxiety levels can promote the process of atherosclerosis because they are scientists, medicine for an important cause of atherosclerotic disease. For those who have an understanding of stress, good health and psychological stability will easily overcome the impact of stress and get a life carefree, cheerful and healthy. In contrast with the ailing body, mental depression, unable to overcome and adapt well to negative events and stress is easily arise disease, may influence health and can lead sudden death when encountering large shocks occur in life.

There is the theory that the mental stress or psychological cause acute cardiac ventricular fibrillation and sudden death was triggered by the protection system leading to a sudden drop tone parasympathetic nerve . Through the mechanism of parasympathetic nerve center will lose the stability of the heart's electrical expressed on ECG. Meanwhile, the sympathetic nervous tone in cardiac symptoms leading to increased heart rate, increasing myocardial contractility, increased systolic blood pressure, causing myocardial ischemia in patients with coronary atherosclerosis leading to the risk of ventricular fibrillation and sudden death.

What to do to reduce stress?

Through daily life, daily everyone can impact stress, affecting more or less to ourselves and we can cause adverse health condition, especially the phenomenon of hypertension , cardiovascular disease, and even result in early death. Therefore, communities need to raise awareness, create for myself arrangement, layout work and living a logical way to reduce the stress can occur at any time.

Measures to reduce stress include their choice of foods with health benefits; athletes with exercise, sports suit; science learning how to breathe; arrange the proper rest; spend significant time for weekends, holidays, New Year holiday; avoid habits, bad habits such as drinking alcohol too much; reduce the amount of salt in the diet, quit smoking ... A problem also needs to be remembered is to arrange the daily work in a scientific, rational, moderate to his strength.