Tuesday, March 4, 2008

A common cause of senile hypertension

The increased with age, blood pressure also increased to varying degrees, over the age of 65 elderly hypertension prevalence rate was 50 percent, half of which were isolated systolic hypertension. 95% of the elderly hypertensive for essential hypertension. The following are the elderly suffering from hypertension several factors:
(1) elderly people like to foods containing sodium high because the elderly taste dysfunction;
(2) elderly abdominal fat accumulation and concentric obesity-prone hypertension;
(3) the existence of insulin resistance and the elderly secondary hyperinsulinemia;
(4) the elderly sympathetic activity, the higher the level of adrenaline in the blood, but they are discharged;
(5) the elderly vascular elasticity decreased vascular endometrial thickening, accompanied atherosclerosis, which is the main reason for the elderly systolic hypertension;
(6) the ability of older persons to reduce renal sodium row.

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