Obesity and high blood pressure are closely related. Obese people are more likely to suffer from high blood pressure, also called hypertension in medicine, and obese children sometimes have trouble with blood pressure fluctuations in their childhood. Studies have found that the degree of overweight and the incidence of hypertension, the heavier the weight, the greater risk of suffering from high blood pressure. Medical reports indicate that every 12.5kg body weight contributes to 7-10mmHg blood pressure growth. As far as moderately obese people are concern, the chances of hypertension are 5 times more than healthy people and 2 times more than the mildly obese.
Hypertension must be timely treated. Traditional Chinese medicine, which might be a good lesson for us, believes that as the concept of the treatment of hypertension, controlling blood pressure is the ultimate goal. However, not confined to lowering the blood pressure, but more importantly to prevent organ damage in the same time, and ultimately extend the lives of patients, improve the quality of life.
Let’s come back to the factors that contribute to the link of obesity and high blood pressure. Obviously people with higher weight have a larger amount of blood. Therefore the increasing of total amount of the blood leads to a growth in cardiac output and more blood come into the blood vessels per minute, which is likely to contribute to hypertension caused by obesity. Obese people often eat more, levels of insulin in their blood is often higher than normal people. Behavior of gluttony and high insulin level in blood have certain impact on the nerve system, which leads to blood vessel contraction, thereby increasing the resistance of the blood vessels, finally causing high blood pressure. Meanwhile insulin works on kidney via increasing absorption of sodium, the key factor which controls the volume of blood, and also triggers the growth of blood pressure. Compared with Hypertensive patients who have a normal body weight, those Hypertensive patients with obesity are more likely to suffer dyslipidemia and diabetes. In addition, occurrence of atherosclerosis among the obese is greater than those non-obese people because of lacking physical activities. Hardened blood vessels would be difficult for blood to flow and vessels to expansion, resulting in a further increase in blood pressure.
Hypertension must be timely treated. Traditional Chinese medicine, which might be a good lesson for us, believes that as the concept of the treatment of hypertension, controlling blood pressure is the ultimate goal. However, not confined to lowering the blood pressure, but more importantly to prevent organ damage in the same time, and ultimately extend the lives of patients, improve the quality of life.
Let’s come back to the factors that contribute to the link of obesity and high blood pressure. Obviously people with higher weight have a larger amount of blood. Therefore the increasing of total amount of the blood leads to a growth in cardiac output and more blood come into the blood vessels per minute, which is likely to contribute to hypertension caused by obesity. Obese people often eat more, levels of insulin in their blood is often higher than normal people. Behavior of gluttony and high insulin level in blood have certain impact on the nerve system, which leads to blood vessel contraction, thereby increasing the resistance of the blood vessels, finally causing high blood pressure. Meanwhile insulin works on kidney via increasing absorption of sodium, the key factor which controls the volume of blood, and also triggers the growth of blood pressure. Compared with Hypertensive patients who have a normal body weight, those Hypertensive patients with obesity are more likely to suffer dyslipidemia and diabetes. In addition, occurrence of atherosclerosis among the obese is greater than those non-obese people because of lacking physical activities. Hardened blood vessels would be difficult for blood to flow and vessels to expansion, resulting in a further increase in blood pressure.
