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In an interview with Show da Notícia, doctor Eduardo Rauen spoke about exercises for those with high blood pressure, a chronic disease that affects three in ten adults. He is a sports doctor and nutritionist in addition to being technical director of the Rauen Institute.
He talks about the importance of measuring blood pressure, taking tests and talking to your doctor. Eduardo explains that anything above 14 to 9 is considered a patient with hypertension. “when the heart beats, it emits a pressure wave in the blood vessels. And, when there is a stiffening of these vessels, the pressure increases and then the demand on that heart increases. We have a metric for us to classify the pressure’
Typically, symptoms are neck pain, tinnitus, dizziness and sometimes loss of consciousness. But the problem is patients who do not have signs of hypertension.
When this patient will find out what happened, it is often after a stroke, after a heart attack. In other words, sometimes it is masked. This is a big problem.
He also talks in more detail about the new guidelines for diagnosing high blood pressure launched by the Brazilian Society of Cardiology, which now takes into account home measurements. The guidelines, for example, aim to minimize the ‘white coat effect’, which is when the patient’s blood pressure rises due to nervousness during care.
Listen to the full interview:
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