{"id":859,"date":"2011-04-26T15:36:55","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T17:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogpratocheio.wordpress.com\/?p=859"},"modified":"2011-04-26T15:36:55","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T17:36:55","slug":"viva-sem-pressao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pratocheio.org.br\/en\/sem-categoria\/viva-sem-pressao\/","title":{"rendered":"Live without pressure!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 26th is National Day to combat High Blood Pressure! Find out a little more about this silent disease that affects around 24.4% of Brazilians.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/t2.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSYmqA6QrKRwc3uwiQ5gFIEAmvv_Ssl6CQ5GB2Dq10Z_OspNpQ058sn5KU\" alt=\"\" width=\"117\" height=\"166\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hypertension is when the pressure that the blood exerts on the walls of the arteries is very strong, exceeding values considered normal.<\/p>\n<p>A person is considered hypertensive when their blood pressure is greater than or equal to 140\/90 mmHg (or 14 by 9). If left untreated, it can cause strokes, heart diseases such as heart attack, heart failure (heart enlargement) and angina (chest pain), kidney failure and blindness.<\/p>\n<p>People who are overweight, don&#039;t have a healthy diet, eat a lot of salt, don&#039;t practice physical activity, drink a lot of alcohol, are diabetic or have hypertensive family members are at greater risk of becoming hypertensive. After age 55, the chances of developing hypertension increase 90%.<\/p>\n<p>Are you hypertensive or want to prevent it?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Measure your pressure regularly<\/li>\n<li>Reduce the amount of salt in your food \u2013 1 teaspoon per day is enough.  Do not use a salt shaker at the table.<\/li>\n<li>Reduce or stop drinking alcoholic beverages.<\/li>\n<li>Maintain a healthy weight.<\/li>\n<li>Practice physical activity regularly. Take walks, take stairs instead of elevators, ride a bike, swim, dance!<\/li>\n<li>Do not smoke! After hypertension, smoking is the main risk factor for cardiovascular disease.<\/li>\n<li>Control your stress! Face problems with wisdom and calm.<\/li>\n<li>Have a healthy diet<a href=\"http:\/\/blogpratocheio.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/26\/viva-sem-pressao\/imagem-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-862\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-862\" title=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/blogpratocheio.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/imagem3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Controlling high blood pressure is in your hands. Quality of life is achieved. Live without pressure!<\/div>\n<div>SOURCE:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bvsms.saude.gov.br\/bvs\/publicacoes\/cartilha_pressao_fe_vida.pdf\">http:\/\/bvsms.saude.gov.br\/bvs\/publicacoes\/cartilha_pressao_fe_vida.pdf<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 26th is National Day to combat High Blood Pressure! Find out a little more about this silent disease that affects around 24.4% of Brazilians. Hypertension is when the pressure that the blood exerts on the walls of the arteries is very strong, exceeding values considered normal. A person is considered hypertensive when their\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pratocheio.org.br\/en\/sem-categoria\/viva-sem-pressao\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More \u00bb<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Live without pressure!<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sem-categoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pratocheio.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pratocheio.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pratocheio.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pratocheio.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pratocheio.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pratocheio.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pratocheio.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pratocheio.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pratocheio.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}