Hypertension
[Blood pressure, disease, high blood pressure, arterial high pressure]Hypertension is defined as an increase of the arterial pressure by a functional and subsequently organic stenosis of the blood vessels. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines high blood pressure at a systolic value of more than 160 mmHg and a diastolic value over 95 mmHg. According to the WHO a diastolic value from 90 to 104 mmHg is a mild, from 105 to 114 mmHg a moderate and more than 115 mmHg a severe high blood pressure. The high blood pressure is usually not associated with complaints, but can cause headache, dizzines, tinnitus, impaired vision, easy defatigation and heart palpitations. In addition to a hereditar disposition the following factors raise the risk for the so-called primary or essential hypertension: salty and fatly food, overweight, stress, physical inactivity, alcohol and smoking. If the blood pressure is increased for a longer time, most of all by the burden of the small vessel (arterioles) the risk for heart and kidney diseases, stroke, eye and vessel damages is increased.
In the industrial nations high blood pressure belongs to the most frequent diseases and leads to death more often than cancer. Regular measurement of the blood pressure (by practitioner or self measurement following medical instructions) indicates a starting high blood pressure early and allows for prevention of serious consequences and complications by appropriate treatments (antihypertensive agents) and liftestyle. High blood pressure can also be a symptom for an other basic disease (so-called secondary high blood pressure). The cardiovascular high blood pressure is the result of a disease of the heart and circulatory system (for example arteriosclerosis). The fairly frequent renal high blood pressure is a result of kidney diseases like kidney artery constriction. Rarely hormonal disorders such as hyperthyroidism or Cushing's syndrome lead to endrocinal high blood pressure.
(Source: own translation based on www.wissen.de)
Selected information about "Hypertension":
Tables:
- Diagnostic data of the hospitals (key figures of full-time inpatients)
- Diagnostic data of the hospitals by place of residence and place of treatment (from 2000)
- Diagnostic data of the prevention and rehabilitation facilities (key figures fo full-time patients)
- Diagnostic data of the prevention or rehabilitation facilities with more than 100 beds by place of residence (ICD10-3-digits, starting from 2003)
- Diagnostic data of the prevention or rehabilitation facilities with more than 100 beds by place of treatment (ICD10-3-digits, startimg from 2003)
- High blood pressure (2014/2015)
Texts:
- GBE kompakt: Volume 04/2015 - High blood pressure: A concern for everyone [Gesundheitsberichterstattung - GBE kompakt, March 2016]
- JoHM 1/2017 - 12-Month prevalence of hypertension in Germany - fact sheet [Gesundheitsberichterstattung - Journal of Health Monitoring]
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