Preventing Disease After Retirement
We are not all equal before the disease. Age, lifestyle, diet, family history of each … has direct effects on health.
Although it is impossible to escape some diseases can, however, delay its onset or lessen its severity. The recipe is on information and prevention.
Advances in medicine in recent decades have undoubtedly been prodigious, and the pace of discovery accelerates with each passing year. Therefore, we rely on scientific advances and remember that the doctor will always remain the best of our counselor, and we ourselves our best ‘protection agents’.
Hypertension
Hypertension is responsible for numerous cardiovascular diseases, cardiologists called to hypertension “the silent disease” because it usually does not cause symptoms. It is defined as an increase in blood pressure (pressure exerted by blood against the walls of the arteries) above normal levels. In fact, blood pressure undergoes changes from one day to another and even from one moment to another day. It is when the voltage is kept permanently high when you can talk about high blood pressure. Although sometimes, hypertension is a consequence of another disease (secondary hypertension), in the vast majority of cases the cause is unknown. However, the factors that affect the incidence of hypertension are well known. Among them:
• Family Heritage
• age: the risk increases with age and, in fact, 50% of those over 70 have hypertension
• sex: the men’s risk increases after age 60 and for women from the menopause.
• Lifestyle: overweight, diet high in salt, alcohol abuse …
• stress;
• Some medications, including cortisone.
The risks of hypertension are long term and of particular concern to four organs: brain (risk of stroke or stroke), heart (risk of myocardial infarction or heart failure); arteries (hardening of the artery walls); kidneys (renal failure risk, which may involve a need for dialysis), eye diseases (hypertensive retinopathy). Fortunately, you can prevent hypertension. The best recommendations are regular exercise; poor diet salt, stop smoking and avoid stress.
