Older people are prone to bleeding and high blood pressure, so many elderly people will prepare their own antihypertensive drugs. But hypertension experts remind everyone that the elderly should be alert to 'pseudohypertension'.
Experts say that although some patients have elevated blood pressure, if they take a very serious dizziness immediately after taking antihypertensive drugs, it means that the 'hypertension' we measured is not his real blood pressure.
High blood pressure in the elderly, especially pay attention to the situation of 'pseudohypertension'. The rise in blood pressure in these patients is caused by problems with the measurement method, not because his blood pressure is really high. Our real blood pressure It is the pressure of the blood in the blood on the blood vessel wall, but our traditional cuff-type sphygmomanometer for measuring blood pressure is measured by blocking the blood flow, that is, the lowest pressure that can block the blood flow. But if the blood vessel itself Very hard, then with a lot of pressure and pressure can not flatten the blood vessels, it will cause misunderstanding that there is such a high pressure.
After vascular calcification, there is a very high vascular stiffness, which is a very important cause of pseudohypertension.
Here to share with you a concept, if an elderly person has elevated blood pressure, after taking antihypertensive drugs, blood pressure may still be slightly reduced, but has been severely bleeding symptoms similar to low blood pressure, such as cold hands and feet, dizziness If you are blinded or even fainted, you should be alert to false hypertension, and may even have caused the patient to have low blood pressure.
