Your blood pressure is high, and you don't control your blood pressure, but you should be superstitious about what makes blood vessels brittle, but you don't know that what really makes blood vessels brittle or even rupture should be uncontrolled blood pressure! Under the influence of hypertension for many years, vascular endothelial cells are constantly damaged, which eventually leads to more and more brittle blood vessels. Once it breaks, it will have all kinds of serious consequences!
So taking antihypertensive drugs will make blood vessels brittle. This is a rumor. Hypertensive drugs not only won't damage blood vessels, but also can control blood pressure at a normal level. Instead, it will protect our blood vessels, reduce the incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular accidents, and improve and protect our blood vessels!
Therefore, don't be deceived by rumors, and don't blindly resist any drugs for treating hypertension. Many chronic diseases require lifelong medication, and hypertension is not the only one. And taking medicine for life, well controlled, and being paralyzed in bed with young people's eyes and eyes askew, which is better? !
Hypertension is a chronic disease. As can be seen from this chronic disease, it can't be completely cured at present, and it needs lifelong medication. It is estimated that some people will have questions: Will long-term use of hypertension make blood vessels more and more fragile? Today I will analyze this problem.
We usually say that blood vessels are brittle, mainly referring to atherosclerosis. The most important factor is the damage of blood vessel wall, including hypertension, diabetes, smoking and drinking. At this time, low density lipoprotein will carry fat to the surface of damaged blood vessels. At this time, human macrophages go there to devour fat, and to a certain extent, macrophages die, thus inducing a series of immune problems and eventually forming atherosclerosis. It can be seen that hypertension is an important factor to make blood vessels brittle;
Many people have such doubts, mainly because they are worried about the adverse reactions of antihypertensive drugs. In fact, compared with the harm of hypertension to human body, the side effects of antihypertensive drugs are not worth mentioning at all; And there is no evidence that antihypertensive drugs will make blood vessels brittle. On the contrary, some studies show that the prognosis of patients with hypertension has been greatly improved because of the existence of antihypertensive drugs. If antihypertensive drugs really have adverse reactions that make blood vessels brittle and have been stopped for a long time, there is no need to worry about this problem.
One of the reasons why many hypertensive friends are unwilling to take antihypertensive drugs is that they think that the side effects of antihypertensive drugs are too great, which will hurt liver and kidney and make blood vessels brittle.
And the result?
It leads to more malignant results such as cerebral infarction, cerebral hemorrhage, heart failure, myocardial infarction and renal failure in patients with hypertension. It was very simple to control blood pressure, which could completely reduce the occurrence of these diseases and even avoid these malignant results, but they were afraid to take antihypertensive drugs. This is called losing sesame seeds and watermelon.
Can antihypertensive drugs cause liver and kidney function damage and make blood vessels brittle?
At present, all antihypertensive drugs have side effects, which must be affirmed, but among the common side effects, the liver and kidney are not bad, let alone the blood vessels are brittle. We are in the hospital, there are so many patients with hypertension, and we haven't seen anyone taking medicine to eat liver and kidney. On the contrary, people who don't take medicine often have various complications.
Common side effects of commonly used antihypertensive drugs at present:
Grade: tachycardia, edema of foot and ankle, headache, blushing, hypotension, dizziness, etc. Some patients may have nausea, stomach upset and allergic reaction.
Sartans: the side effects are relatively small, and patients with renal artery stenosis and renal insufficiency need to be reminded.
Puli: Irritating dry cough with vascular edema, hyperkalemia, pregnancy and bilateral renal artery stenosis is prohibited.
Legend: bradycardia, fatigue, cold limbs, male erectile dysfunction; Acute heart failure, bronchial asthma, sick sinus syndrome and atrioventricular block are prohibited.
Diuretics: electrolyte disorder, hypokalemia; Cause abnormal metabolism of uric acid and blood sugar.
This is the most common side effect of common antihypertensive drugs. We really need to observe it during taking it. If you find side effects, you should contact your doctor in time to make adjustments. Moreover, the side effects of antihypertensive drugs are not inevitable, as long as they can be found and replaced in time, they can be avoided.
It will not damage the function of liver and kidney, and it is nonsense to make blood vessels brittle, because blood vessels themselves become brittle. Without this statement, we only talk about arteriosclerosis, but antihypertensive drugs not only will not aggravate arteriosclerosis, but even reduce arteriosclerosis when blood pressure is normal. Some antihypertensive drugs can also prevent and alleviate arteriosclerosis. Because long-term hypertension can lead to arteriosclerosis, hypertension can lead to cerebral infarction, myocardial infarction and so on. If blood pressure drops to normal, arteriosclerosis naturally caused by hypertension will be obviously inhibited. At the same time, antihypertensive drugs such as Puli and Sartan can delay and control atherosclerosis, which is beneficial to the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
In short, antihypertensive drugs will not cause blood vessels to become brittle, but if blood pressure is not actively controlled, blood vessels will really become "brittle".
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This is a very common understanding of antihypertensive drugs, because many patients think that antihypertensive drugs can reduce blood pressure by continuously opening blood vessels. After a long time, blood vessels will become brittle and thin, which is the cause of cerebral hemorrhage. To be sure, this is a misunderstanding of antihypertensive drugs and a manifestation of insufficient understanding of the dangers of hypertension.
First of all, there are three main reasons for hypertension:
Secondly, the role of antihypertensive drugs is based on the above three main reasons. For example, some antihypertensive drugs slow down the heart rate and increase blood reflux, some antihypertensive drugs enhance the filtration function of the kidney, accelerate urine production and reduce blood volume, and some antihypertensive drugs enhance the vasoconstriction regulation mechanism to cope with the pressure of blood vessels in time.
To be sure, all kinds of antihypertensive drugs do not achieve the purpose of lowering blood pressure by changing the structure of blood vessels, so they will not have any influence on the composition of blood vessels, nor will they make blood vessels hard, thin and brittle. In fact, it is hypertension itself, not antihypertensive drugs, that causes these pathological changes of blood vessels.
This is because long-term hypertension will damage vascular endothelial cells, and blood fat will be deposited here, causing inflammation and lipidation of blood vessels, thus changing the normal structure, not only losing normal contraction function, but also prone to blockage and rupture, which is also the root cause of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular infarction or bleeding.
Taking antihypertensive drugs in time will make blood pressure drop in time and be in a stable state, which can effectively avoid the occurrence of vascular diseases, and is actually a kind of protection for blood vessels. Therefore, the need to take antihypertensive drugs and refuse to use them is the reason why blood vessels are damaged and become "weak". Patients with hypertension must have a clear understanding of this point, and it is their greatest responsibility to take antihypertensive drugs regularly.
Imagine a balloon. Isn't it easier to explode with more air?
So are blood vessels. The higher the blood pressure, the higher the risk of vascular rupture and sclerotic stenosis.
The decrease of vascular elasticity is one of the mechanisms of hypertension, not the decrease of vascular elasticity caused by eating hypertension.
Why does vascular elasticity decrease? The main risk factors are heredity, inactivity, smoking, obesity and age.
Hypertension can cause vascular endothelial damage, and the lipids in blood vessels will stay in the damaged place.
Atherosclerosis occurs, forming plaques, leading to vascular stenosis or occlusion.
Just like a car, if it is scratched, it will rust/damage more easily if it is not treated.
A large number of studies show that actively lowering blood pressure can reduce the occurrence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
Indirectly, taking antihypertensive drugs is the protection of blood vessels.
Low blood pressure: it will make the nutrition and oxygen supply in all parts of the body insufficient, leading to dizziness, weakness and even syncope, and will increase the risk of stroke;
High blood pressure: Excessive pressure can damage various organs and tissues, including blood vessels, heart and kidneys, and increase the risk of stroke.
Note: Blood pressure measurement is affected by many factors, such as emotional excitement, tension, exercise, temperature, etc. A single measurement cannot be used as a diagnosis result.
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α -linolenic acid can dissolve excess lipids and plaques in the body, reduce lipid waste on blood vessel walls, remove blood lipids and lower blood pressure.
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Vitamin E: It has super antioxidant effect, which can reduce intimal injury and increase the elasticity and permeability of blood vessels.
EPA: It can clear cholesterol, triglycerides and other substances in blood vessels, thus achieving the effect of lowering blood pressure and blood lipid.
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Water is the best diluent for human body. For hypertensive patients, mastering the correct way of drinking water is more conducive to the stability of blood pressure.
Get a glass of water early: stabilize blood pressure and reduce blood viscosity;
A small cup before going to bed: water will be lost when you fall asleep, and you can drink a small glass of water before going to bed; If you are afraid of getting up at night, you can drink two sips of water;
Make water for yellow urine: If you find that the urine is particularly yellow, especially for patients with hypertension, you should make water in time.
Control three places:
Emotional management is very important for patients with hypertension.
Being in a state of fatigue, tension and excitement for a long time will increase blood pressure and lead to adverse consequences.
Therefore, people with high blood pressure should remember great sadness and great joy and learn to control and adjust their emotions.
Obesity is a risk factor for chronic diseases such as hypertension, hyperlipidemia and diabetes.
The study found that more than 60% patients with hypertension were overweight.
Therefore, if you want to control your blood pressure, you must "keep your mouth shut and open your legs" and control your weight, and your blood pressure will naturally stabilize.
Smoking and drinking are the spiritual "food" of people, but they are also the "killers" of health.
Smoking, harmful substances in smoke, make blood sticky, lead to vasospasm, neurological abnormalities, and increase the risk of hypertension and coronary heart disease.
Drinking and alcohol make the heart beat faster, stimulate blood vessels and damage the intima of blood vessels. And make blood pressure rise rapidly, leading to myocardial infarction and cerebral infarction.
There are many kinds of diuretics, such as high efficiency, medium efficiency, low efficiency and so on.
Diuretics reduce our blood volume and promote the discharge of sodium ions and water, which mainly acts on the filtration of our glomeruli and the reabsorption of renal tubules.
Side effects: lead to electrolyte disorder in the body, lead to diseases such as hypokalemia and hypocalcemia, inhibit the release of insulin, and should be used with caution in patients with hyperglycemia or diabetes.
Hypotensive drugs, that is, calcium antagonists, control the contractile function of muscle red blood cells, make blood vessels unobstructed and relax, and reduce myocardial contractility, thus playing a role in lowering blood pressure.
Side effects: Common side effects include edema, gastrointestinal dysfunction and constipation.
That is to say, beta blockers, which we usually say, mainly reduce blood pressure by inhibiting nerve excitement, sympathetic nerve activity, myocardial contractility and slowing heart rate.
Side effects: Long-term use will lead to neurological disorders, even decreased heart function, angina pectoris, and eventually lead to heart failure.
Mainly to reduce the angiotensin of blood vessels, to dilate blood vessels, to make our blood flow normally, and to lower blood pressure.
Side effects: Cough may occur, but long-term use will reduce the elasticity of blood vessels and cause arteriosclerosis.
It is also an angiotensin that acts on blood vessels, but it blocks the transmission of angiotensin in blood vessels and reduces the contraction of blood vessels, thus achieving the effect of lowering blood pressure.
Side effects: There may be some adverse reactions, nausea, abdominal pain, etc. Long-term use will have a certain impact on nerve conduction and vascular elasticity.
Hypertension is an incurable disease at present, and it is also a disease that needs lifelong medication, so many people think that taking antihypertensive drugs for a long time will lead to a series of side effects, so some people will lead to a series of complications if they don't take the drugs, and it may be too late to take the drugs when all the complications appear.
Long-term use of antihypertensive drugs will not cause blood vessel thickening. Antihypertensive drugs mainly dilate blood vessels to achieve the effect of lowering blood pressure, and do not change the structure of blood vessels themselves. Moreover, antihypertensive drugs have a protective effect on the cardiovascular system, rather than destroying blood vessels. Therefore, not taking medicine on time will lead to excessive pressure on the vascular wall, leading to intimal damage, and some lipid substances will be deposited on the vascular wall, further accelerating the damage of organs such as heart, brain and kidney.
Therefore, it is easy to cause the fragility of blood vessels mainly because of improper blood pressure control, which leads to the increase of cholesterol and blood lipids in the blood, which leads to the increase of blood viscosity and then slows down. Moreover, some lipid substances are deposited, which makes blood vessels prone to atherosclerosis and makes human blood vessels lose their original elasticity and toughness.
The main function of antihypertensive drugs is to reduce the pressure of blood on blood vessels by reducing blood moisture, dilating blood vessels and reducing blood volume. Although antihypertensive drugs will not cause blood vessels to become brittle, they are toxic in three aspects, so long-term use will affect and damage liver and kidney function. Therefore, taking antihypertensive drugs should start with a small dose, and when it is serious, it needs to be combined with drugs, but never stop taking drugs privately.
Long-term use of antihypertensive drugs will make blood vessels more and more brittle?
Doctors will certainly have a lot of ideas when they see such problems. What is the concept of blood vessels becoming more and more brittle?
Think carefully about whether it is because the systemic arterioles of patients with hypertension will be diseased and hardened. Long-term hypertension and related risk factors will promote the formation and development of atherosclerosis, increase the risk of arteriosclerosis, calcification and aging, and thus lead to the fragility of blood vessels.
1, to know the answer to the question, let's first look at why hypertensive patients take antihypertensive drugs.
Most hypertensive patients believe that the purpose of taking antihypertensive drugs is not simply to lower blood pressure and make it reach the standard! In fact, the main purpose of taking antihypertensive drugs is to prevent and treat hypertension complications, including cardiovascular and cerebrovascular complications, and damage to corresponding target organs such as eyes, kidneys and brain. Of course, to achieve this goal, it is the most basic to reduce blood pressure and reach the standard.
2, antihypertensive drugs will not only make blood vessels more and more brittle, but help to delay vascular sclerosis.
Taking antihypertensive drugs for a long time can not only reduce the occurrence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events, but also control blood pressure, strive to reach the standard, slow down the speed and degree of arteriosclerosis, and prevent and treat coronary heart disease caused by coronary atherosclerosis. Prevention and treatment of cerebral vascular sclerosis cerebral infarction: prevention and treatment of renal failure caused by renal arteriosclerosis.
Therefore, to sum up, antihypertensive drugs will not only make blood vessels more and more brittle, but also delay the hardening of blood vessels and bring more benefits.
3. The basic purpose of taking medicine is to control hypertension, and the ultimate goal is to reduce the harm of target organs such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Therefore, in the process of taking antihypertensive drugs for a long time, we must pay attention to the monitoring of blood pressure. Only when the curative effect of antihypertensive drugs is confirmed to achieve the effect of controlling blood pressure smoothly can the greatest health benefits of taking antihypertensive drugs for a long time be obtained.
Of course, it is impossible to rely solely on drugs and ignore the improvement of lifestyle.
Many hypertensive patients think that as long as they insist on taking medicine regularly for a long time, they ignore the adjustment of their life and diet structure and continue to smoke and drink while taking medicine. In fact, a healthy lifestyle (including reasonable diet, smoking cessation and alcohol restriction, moderate exercise and psychological balance) is the basis for the treatment of hypertension and should be adhered to for a long time; Drug treatment must be based on a healthy lifestyle. The data showed that patients lost about 10kg, and their blood pressure decreased by 5 ~ 20 mmhg. Controlling the intake of sugar and salt, maintaining proper exercise and maintaining a reasonable diet structure can also control the rise of blood pressure and better prevent and treat arteriosclerosis.
To sum up, taking antihypertensive drugs will not make blood vessels more and more brittle. On the contrary, it will be more beneficial to the arteriosclerosis of patients with hypertension, which can reduce the complications of heart, brain and kidney, delay the arteriosclerosis and aging, and avoid the occurrence of unintentional vascular events.
Hypertension is a common chronic disease. For patients with hypertension, it is not just a number, but a high-risk factor that leads to target organ damage and induces cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Therefore, once patients with hypertension are diagnosed, they must adhere to long-term medication.
Vascular fragility gradually occurs and develops with age, and its main pathological basis is atherosclerosis. Hypertension, hyperlipidemia, hyperglycemia and obesity can also accelerate atherosclerosis through various reasons, making blood vessels brittle and hard, thus leading to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
Advantages and disadvantages of antihypertensive drugs: Many people are worried that taking antihypertensive drugs for a long time will produce drug resistance or pose a threat to their health, so some patients will stop taking drugs without authorization, reduce their dosage, and stop taking drugs when blood pressure is asymptomatic or stable. In fact, this is a completely wrong understanding.
On the one hand, taking antihypertensive drugs is to control blood pressure, and more importantly, to prevent target organ damage and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular complications. As for patients' worries about its side effects, it is totally unnecessary. The safety and effectiveness of antihypertensive drugs have been proved by long-term clinical practice. Generally speaking, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
As for the threat to vascular health, it is even more nonsense. It is not antihypertensive drugs that make blood vessels brittle and hard, but that hypertension cannot be effectively controlled. Long-term hypertension will damage vascular endothelium, accelerate atherosclerosis, increase plaque, make blood vessels gradually brittle and harden, and even rupture plaque, thus inducing cerebral thrombosis and myocardial infarction. Because blood pressure rises sharply, on the basis of vascular diseases, it will induce cerebral hemorrhage. On the contrary, taking antihypertensive drugs for a long time to control blood pressure will protect blood vessel health, reduce target organ damage and avoid complications such as cerebral infarction, cerebral thrombosis, heart failure and myocardial infarction.
2. Causes of blood vessel brittleness: In fact, blood vessel brittleness and aging are inevitable products of aging, and what we have to do is to delay its progress as much as possible. Among them, the most important thing is to prevent the occurrence and development of atherosclerosis, including daily life intervention and risk factor control. Specifically, first of all, pay attention to actively treating diseases such as three highs and obesity; Secondly, the necessary drug treatment, including statins and anti-platelet aggregation drugs; The third is the correct lifestyle that should be adhered to at all times, including diet, exercise and work and rest.
There are many patients with hypertension, and most of them need to take medicine for a long time, so there are many rumors about hypertension medication, such as this one mentioned by the questioner-taking hypertension drugs often will make blood vessels more and more fragile. Is that really the case?
First, will high blood pressure make blood vessels gradually brittle?
In fact, hypertension itself will gradually make blood vessels brittle, mainly in two aspects. On the one hand, hypertension can lead to atherosclerosis, and the consequence of atherosclerosis is the narrowing and elasticity loss of blood vessels, which in turn makes blood vessels brittle. On the other hand, hypertension will make blood vessels in a state of high pressure for a long time, leading to gradual calcification and brittleness of blood vessels; There may be other reasons that we don't know yet, but it is an indisputable fact that high blood pressure will make blood vessels worse and worse. This means that hypertension itself will gradually make blood vessels brittle.
Second, will antihypertensive drugs make blood vessels brittle?
Blood vessel elasticity caused by antihypertensive drugs disappears and gradually catalyzes, which has never been heard of. Although there are many kinds of antihypertensive drugs, and different kinds have different side effects, so far, I have not heard that antihypertensive drugs will increase the fragility of patients' blood vessels and increase the related risks. So don't worry about the fragility of blood vessels caused by antihypertensive drugs. Maybe it's just a rumor or a lie with ulterior motives.
Third, do antihypertensive drugs have many side effects? How to prevent it?
Antihypertensive drugs do have many side effects, but each one is different, but most of them can be found and prevented as soon as possible. Many people are worried about the side effects of taking antihypertensive drugs for a long time, but they know nothing about the possible harm caused by high blood pressure. Compared with the harm of hypertension, the side effects of antihypertensive drugs are almost negligible, and definitely do more harm than good. Because as long as we carefully observe and change or adjust drugs in time, most side effects can be avoided.