New Therapy Reduces Hypertension

Approximately one billion people worldwide suffer from hypertension and 7.1 million deaths each year related to hypertension. Awareness of the importance of the management of hypertension continues to increase in western countries and the number of people with hypertension who received treatment had to be increased.The large number of people with hypertension in the world to inform you that this disease is global in nature and are not choosy patients. Indeed we will not see a doctor told his patient the cause of death was hypertension. In contrast to dengue fever which is often a source of grief in television news, hypertensive disease itself does not cause death.It's not high blood pressure, but komplikasinyalah often fatal. In the United States, one person died due to complications of hypertension every two minutes.Unfortunately, hypertension is often no symptoms that if not checked regularly, maybe once a person comes to know that he was suffering from hypertension when blood pressure = 140/90 mmHg. For hypertension with blood pressure = 140/90 mmHg, practically require antihypertensive medication therapy.Actually, the disease is not dangerous if hypertension can be controlled. There are many ways to reduce blood pressure. One of them with drug therapy. The purpose of hypertensive therapy is to reduce the number of deaths and morbidity due to renal and cardiovascular complications (heart, blood vessels).Now has come the agent promising new hypertension therapy, namely Direct Renin Inhibitor (DRI). These drugs are proven to result in suppression of the more significant RAA system and reflects the inability of ACEI inhibit the formation of angiotensin II in an optimal because it turns out not only the formation of angiotensin II through ACE (angiotensin converting enzyme is inhibited stage ACEI) alone, but there are other paths which are not affected by enzyme them.In addition to treatment, according to Dr. Santoso Karo Karo, you can either through lifestyle changes (diet and exercise). Here's the details.1. Eating fruits, milk with low fat content. This can reduce the blood pressure of 10-14 mm Hg2. Reduce salt intake. The recommended limit is about 6 grams of salt per day. This can reduce the blood pressure of 2-8 mm Hg3. Improve sports, like aerobics, walking for 30 minutes every day. This can reduce the blood pressure of 4-9 mm Hg4. Reducing alcohol consumption. For men, do not consume more than two glasses a day. Meanwhile, for women, do not consume more than one glass. This can reduce the blood pressure of 2-4 mm Hg.