At the beginning of the year, it’s a good idea to measure your blood pressure. Its value can give useful information about the kidneys or the heart, but also about the endocrine glands.
A two-way highway is found between the heart and the kidneys. Two organs that communicate permanently. On the highway, only the legal speed is allowed. Normal speed is… at most 14 by 9 column mercury. And now we are referring to the blood pressure in the arteries. Too high a speed can occur due to both the kidney and the heart. Or endocrine glands. The kidneys not only remove toxic products from the blood, they regulate communication pathways with the heart. Are the kidneys not doing their job? Sodium and potassium accumulate in the body. Both minerals act directly on the circulatory system. Prof. Dr. Cristina Căpușă, primary nephrologist: “Hypertension depends more on the ability of the kidney to play – in the sense of eliminating or retaining salt in the body – than on a heart condition. Rather, the heart gets sick because it is high blood pressure. And the kidney is an organ that intervenes in the production of arterial hypertension.” Does the heart suffer? It causes kidney damage. And vice versa. The kidney suffers. Declares heart disease. Too much pressure in the blood vessels? The heart muscle thickens. To adapt. The process leads to heart failure. How? Prof. Dr. Cristina Căpușa, primary nephrologist: “The heart thickens because it was forced to pump, where there was resistance. It adapts and this adaptation is good up to a point, then it becomes disadvantageous to the heart muscle, which, being thicker, has the same blood vessels and becomes less oxygenated. First thing? Having your blood pressure measured once a year since your 20s doesn’t mean you have to get chest pains when you’re 50, and that’s when you measure your blood pressure.” Hypertension. Does it appear under 35? Prof. Dr. Cristina Căpușă, primary nephrologist: “If you have hypertension and are under 35 years old, look for the kidney with a urine examination, see if proteins are lost through the urine. If they are lost, the kidney is sick, if they are not lost, you look at the endocrine glands, with blood tests. If those are also normal, you look at the arteries of the kidney with a Doppler ultrasound.” The endocrine glands, which can determine hypertension, are the adrenals and the thyroid. Hypertension over 35? All these causes are excluded. And only then does the diagnosis of primary hypertension appear, i.e. inherited. It is treated throughout life with medication, exercise and low-salt food.
Source: Pro TV
Publication date: 08-01-2024 07:35
2024-01-08 05:35:00
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