Interesting patterns associated with hypertension and stress have been identified by American and Polish scientists. The first concluded that the mental abilities of older people are negatively affected by arterial hypertension. The second is that stress on the first working day of the week, Monday, contributes to a heart attack.
More than 1 billion people worldwide suffer from hypertension
High blood pressure today is not only a disease of people of age but also of young people. The figure of 1 billion people is given by the American Association of Cardiologists. Estimates were made in 2017. We must assume that today there are even more people suffering from high blood pressure. Although the research of American scientists concerns people of age, it seems to me that their conclusions will be interesting for young people as well. After all, we will all once be old. And especially since there are enough hypertensives among young people.
The information was provided by the Chinese
American scientists from Columbia University analyzed the data provided by the Chinese program for the collection of statistical information on elderly people. The information was collected over four years and included sex, age, education, and prescribed treatment. The data were collected for 11,000 elderly people, both women, and men.
Patients performed special tasks
Chinese doctors measured people's blood pressure and then asked them to perform various tasks. The assignments were given to determine the mental capacity of the patients. So as the age of the participants increased, the tasks were getting worse and worse. And people with high blood pressure, who did not take drugs against hypertension at all, coped with the test tasks much worse than those who took treatment. Patients taking hypertension medications showed results no worse than those of their peers during the test.
And to sum up
What conclusion can we draw from the research results of American scientists? Well, unless it's just that hypertension drugs need to be taken not only to keep the pressure more or less normal. But also to be sane and old. And not only that. Also, to make the heart work with less stress. And even a heart attack is not far away. And, as you know, he is getting younger today. What is promoted in no small measure ... Mondays.
Polish cardiologists have collected a database of heart diseases
Specialists from the Heart Center in Zabrze, Poland, have collected a database of heart diseases, the main of which is a heart attack. Based on their data, the following conclusions were drawn. On the first working day, 17 percent of heart attacks are for the time immediately after the weekend that the largest number of heart attacks occurs - 17 percent. For days from Tuesday to Friday - 15 percent. And on weekends, 11-12 percent happens.
It is not surprising
For example, I wasn't surprised by those numbers. And so it is known that stress contributes to the occurrence of heart attacks. Including at work. And Monday, after the weekend, it is stress in itself. After relaxing at the weekend you immediately plunge into work. New business, new challenges, new difficulties. Hardly anyone can say that everything at work is always smooth.
And not always in the morning
The statistics of Polish cardiologists refutes the current opinion that most heart attacks occur in the morning. So, it turns out that the hours from 6 a.m. to 12 p.m. account for only 27% of heart troubles. But in the afternoon until 6 p.m. - 35 percent. In the evenings, attacks come to 22 percent of the heart rate. The nights were the safest period.
The risk of a heart attack grows in the journey
It is a shame, but the risk factors, according to Polish cardiologists, include travel. The most dangerous days in terms of heart attacks are the first and last day of vacation. It is clear that the first day is a day of anxiety, and how things will be. The last day is the day when you realize that your holiday is over and you need to go to work tomorrow.
Temperature and bad air
The risk of a heart attack is greatly influenced by the temperature regime. Geometrically, the risk increases with each degree after 20 degrees. Frost's are also harmful. Temperature extremes contribute significantly to the occurrence of heart attacks. So it is worth to dress up for the weather. Bad air, the most important enemy of a healthy heart, according to Polish cardiologists. In their conclusions, they gave such figures. When the quality of air deteriorates significantly, the number of heart attacks in hospitals increases by 12 percent.
Yes... After such conclusions, you will think again and again about the air we breathe.