Many people with hypertension are aware of the effects of smoking on cardiovascular disease, but know little about heart rate. In fact, the cardiovascular damage caused by a fast heart rate is just as serious as that caused by smoking.
Studies have shown that the risk of cardiovascular death increases with heart rate, especially when the heart rate is greater than 80 beats per minute. In general, those with a heart rate of 90 to 99 beats/min have a mortality rate three times higher than those with a heart rate less than 60 beats/min. However, heart rate, an insidious cardiovascular risk factor, has not attracted much attention, especially in patients with hypertension.
First, be wary of these behaviors, be careful they are consuming your life
The heart is not a perpetual motion machine, it has a certain limit to the number of times it beats. Studies show that within a certain range, the slower the heart rate, the longer the life expectancy. Heart rate and each person’s physical quality and habits have a certain degree of relationship, but, people eat grains inevitably exist some unhealthy habits, the following habits are likely to speed up your heart rate, consuming your life.
1, tantrums
When angry, the body will secrete adrenaline, adrenaline will make blood vessels constricted, blood pressure increased, breathing faster, faster heartbeat. Impulsiveness is ultimately the devil, people in middle age should cultivate more elegant life interests to cultivate sentiment, such as practicing painting and calligraphy, raising flowers and plants, etc.
2.Eating too fast
When eating, in order to keep the internal organs in good working condition, the heartbeat will be accelerated by 8% to 10%, the heart ejected blood volume increased, diastolic pressure, that is, low pressure will be reduced, about 30 to 120 minutes.
When eating too fast, the nerve center is too late to produce a feeling of satiety, resulting in overeating, so the heart rate accelerates more and lasts longer. Although these changes do not affect normal people, but for people with underlying heart disease, such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, if eating too fast and too full, the heart rate, cardiac output and myocardial oxygen consumption increase too much, the patient may have panic, discomfort and other feelings.
3, stay up late, overworked
A large amount of nutrition in the body is invisibly consumed in the midst of staying up late, and the body functions are disrupted after staying up late, which will cause imbalance in the main organs and systems in the body. In order to ensure the normal operation of body functions, so after staying up late the body in order to maintain the function of the body systems, the heart will beat faster.
4, excessive drinking and smoking
This is because tobacco contains nicotine (nicotine) will excite the central and peripheral sympathetic nerves, so that the heart rate increases, but also prompt the adrenal glands to release a large number of catecholamines, so that small arteries contract, resulting in increased blood pressure, nicotine will also stimulate the chemical receptors in the blood vessels, reflexively cause The blood pressure rises.
5, heart rate is fast, but not so simple
Heart rate is the most important determinant of myocardial oxygen consumption, too fast heart rate will increase the tension of the ventricular wall, increase arterial elastic fiber fatigue and rupture, likely to induce atherosclerotic plaque rupture bleeding. A rapid heart rate at rest increases insulin resistance, reduces exercise tolerance, and causes abdominal fat to accumulate.
If a patient with hypertension has a faster resting heart rate, their risk of coronary heart disease and death is higher. A survey of hypertensive patients showed that patients with a fast heart rate had a significantly higher rate of illness and death, with those with a heart rate of 75 to 89 beats/min compared to those with a heart rate of
90 beats / min compared with the population, the risk of cardiovascular disease reduced by 20%.
6.The safety lock of healthy life, heart rate management
When a hypertensive patient’s heart rate exceeds 80 beats per minute it should raise alarm. In the past, hypertensive patients often only pay attention to the comprehensive management of hypertension from blood sugar, blood lipids, blood pressure and other aspects, but neglected the management of heart rate. However, if hypertensive patients manage their heart rate well, it is equivalent to installing an extra safety lock for their lives.
After autumn, as the temperature gradually drops, the blood pressure of hypertensive patients is likely to rise, and the chance of cardiovascular events gradually increases. This is the time to reduce the feelings of autumn. When hypertension patients have high heart rates, the first thing is to eat a reasonable diet and to adhere to a healthy life such as limiting salt and alcohol and eating less fast food. Secondly, regular physical activity is needed, which can be doing housework or various sports. The effect of exercise is obvious, especially for overweight people. Usually adhere to 3 months of exercise, you can make the heart rate drop 4 to 5 times / min.
In addition, in the face of life and work, one should maintain a calm state of mind and reduce emotional stimulation. In terms of drug selection, patients do not need to choose other heart rate lowering drugs in addition to antihypertensive drugs. β-blockers are the most commonly used heart rate slowing antihypertensive drugs, which can effectively inhibit sympathetic hyperactivation while controlling blood pressure, and play an integral role in the prevention and treatment of the entire cardiovascular disease chain.