With the improvement of people’s living standard and medical quality, the relationship between hypertension and affective disorders is getting more and more attention. Patients with essential hypertension are accompanied by varying degrees of anxiety and depression. Long-term depression and psychological stress can activate the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and lead to platelet aggregation, insulin resistance, and metabolic abnormalities, making blood pressure regulation difficult and increasing the risk of complications.
A. Difficult to lower blood pressure! Surprisingly, and depression, anxiety related mood?
Anxiety and depression are closely related to hypertension, and the poor self-control of individuals with anxiety and depression, less exercise, addiction to alcohol and tobacco, and a high-fat, salt-rich diet are also causes of difficulty in lowering blood pressure and poor prognosis. Therefore, the ability to effectively regulate emotions directly affects the effect of blood pressure lowering.
What is anxiety?
Anxiety refers to the lack of sufficient objective reasons, patients produce tension, anxiety or fear of the internal experience and the corresponding autonomic dysfunction, the individual is often accompanied by palpitations, sweating and other symptoms of autonomic dysfunction;
What is depression?
Depression is a state of mind mainly characterized by low mood, often accompanied by a variety of negative symptoms, such as feelings of worthlessness, helplessness, despair, suicidal ideation, reduced volition, psychomotor retardation, and a variety of physical symptoms and physiological dysfunctions, which often occur together and affect each other.
Anxiety and depression are mainly assessed by the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HAD), the Hamilton Depression Scale (HAMD) and the Hamilton Anxiety Inventory (HAMA), the Beak Depression Inventory and the Beck Anxiety Inventory, the Self-Rated Depression Scale (SDS) and the Self-Assessed Anxiety Scale (SAS).
According to the World Health Organization, depression has become the third most burdensome disease in the world and the second most burdensome disease in China, and is expected to rise to the top in 2030. A national epidemiological survey in China shows that there are currently about 30 million diagnosed depression patients in China, and adult women have twice as many depression patients as men.
Four, dangerous! Hypertension combined with anxiety disorders
The proportion of patients with hypertension combined with anxiety disorders is as high as 30% to 50%. Some experts believe that anxiety and depressive disorders are one of the independent risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
At present, research on the choice of anti-anxiety and depression drugs for patients with hypertension combined with anxiety and depression has focused on selective 5hydroxytryptamine reuptake inhibitors, such as fluoxetine, paroxetine, sertraline, etc. In addition to being more expensive, these drugs have some serious side effects in elderly patients, and some of them are contraindicated at higher blood pressure.
Therefore, we explore some lifestyle interventions and functional foods for antidepressant and anxiety, aiming to supplement the central nervous system and endocrine system, depleting nutrients during depression and anxiety, thus shortening the depression and anxiety period and thus improving the antihypertensive effect and clinical prognosis, while also reducing the cost of patient treatment.
Five, and high blood pressure and anxiety, what to do?
1, adjust the lifestyle
Relaxation training, music therapy, physical exercise. To allow patients to master the training essentials and achieve relaxation requirements. Use perceptive music therapy, and ask them to enjoy more melodious and soothing light music, while correcting patients’ misconceptions and bad behavior.
2.Eat a banana
A banana to slow down anxiety scientists have found that bananas help reduce psychological stress, relieve anxiety and depression, making people happier. Sports nutrition experts recommend that when feeling physically and mentally stressed and anxious and depressed, you may want to eat a banana. A medium-sized banana contains 105 calories and 14 grams of sugar, which helps to moderately raise blood sugar levels and can meet 30% of the daily intake of vitamin B6, which helps the brain synthesize more serotonin, which in turn wards off depression and anxiety.
3.Bowl of sweet wheat and jujube soup
The whole recipe of Gan Mai Da Zao Tang is composed of licorice, wheat and jujube, all of which are tonic and medicine-food products. It can significantly increase the content and activity related to 5-hydroxytryptamine and norepinephrine in the brain, so as to achieve the purpose of treating depression. In modern clinical application, Gan Mai Da Zao Tang is commonly used in cardiac neurosis, anxiety disorders, insomnia associated with depressive disorders, irritable bowel syndrome, perimenopausal syndrome, neurasthenia, schizophrenia, etc.