Nursing Care in Hypertension
What is Hypertension?
When your doctor with high blood pressure cumin, you wonder who is. Hypertension is a chronic disease, meaning that it lasts throughout life and needs of drug treatment followed by dietary and hygiene recommendations.
Hypertension causes an increase in the numbers of stress, tension or pressure is the force exerted by blood on the walls of blood vessels. To measure this value, it uses two digits, the highest value is the systolic pressure, or maximum (occurs when the heart muscle contracts and expels Lasangre of the ventricles to blood vessels), the lower is the diastolic pressure ( occurs when the heart muscle relaxes and blood reenters the heart).
What are the normal values:
If we take the average of all age groups we obtain a systolic pressure of 120 mm Hg. and a diastolic pressure of 80 mm Hg.
The World Health Organization considers that 140/90 mm Hg is the upper limit of normal. Values higher than 160/95 mm Hg are rates of hypertension.
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