{"id":7012,"date":"2017-06-13T10:40:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T08:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bio.paissangroup.com\/patologie\/ipertensione-arteriosa\/"},"modified":"2023-08-25T09:23:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T07:23:41","slug":"ipertensione-arteriosa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bio.paissangroup.com\/en\/patologie\/ipertensione-arteriosa\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypertension"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row top_margin=”page-margin-top” el_position=”first last”][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_custom_heading source=”post_title” font_container=”tag:h1|font_size:30%20px|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”up”][vc_column_text el_class=”pagine-interne”]The contents of this page have been produced by a team of physicians and experts of the Italian Institute of Telemedicine in compliance with the recommendations of the latest medical and scientific guidelines. Institutional communication not subject to authorisation pursuant to the Ministerial Decree 23\/02\/2006.<\/em><\/p>\n

What is\u00a0blood pressure?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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We often hear about it, but what is the definition of\u00a0blood pressure<\/strong>? From a physical point of view it is simply the force exerted by the blood pumped by the heart against the arterial walls<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

When we\u00a0measure the blood pressure\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0we can detect two types of values: the pressure is called\u00a0\u201cmaximum\u201d or systolic<\/strong>, during the\u00a0heart contraction<\/strong> phase and \u201cminimum\u201d or diastolic<\/strong>, when the heart relaxes between a contraction and the next one.<\/p>\n

In some cases the blood pressure can increase and reach too high values, which remain over time. This condition, called\u00a0hypertension<\/strong>, takes place when the maximum pressure is over 140 mmHg (millimetres of mercury, blood pressure measure unit) or the minimum one is over 90 mmHg. A condition which if lasting over time can lead to the development of more or less serious\u00a0cardiovascular disease<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hypertension in figures<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Hypertension\u00a0<\/strong>affects approximately 40% of adult people (15 million Italians and one billion and a half of people in the world) and only one out of four of them monitors and treats this condition. This is not always due only to the lack of interest towards one\u2019s own health; as a matter of fact, hypertension in most cases gives no problems, just rarely some headache, dizziness or buzzing in the ears, and often the symptoms appear only many years later, when hypertension has already caused vascular, cardiac, cerebral and renal damages and, as a consequence, the arising of serious\u00a0cardiovascular complications<\/strong>. Actually hypertension is the main cause of\u00a0cardiovascular disease<\/a>s and of death in the world (280 thousand deaths a year in Italy and 8,5 million in the world).<\/p>\n

Below you\u2019ll find a list of the most common diseases caused by hypertension<\/p>\n