With increasing age, blood pressure also increased to varying degrees, the 65-year-old or older hypertension prevalence rate of 50 per cent, half of which were isolated systolic hypertension. 95% of the elderly patients with primary hypertension. The elderly suffering from hypertension following several factors:
(1) elderly people like to high sodium foods, because the elderly taste dysfunction;
(2) abdominal fat accumulation and the elderly to central obesity-prone hypertension;
(3) The existence of the elderly insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia secondary;
(4) the elderly sympathetic activity, the higher the level of adrenaline in the blood, but not out;
(5) the elderly vascular elasticity decreased vascular intimal thickening, accompanied atherosclerosis, which is the main reason for the elderly isolated systolic hypertension;
(6) the ability of older persons to reduce renal sodium row.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
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