A new study shows that regular blood pressure monitoring can help keep your heart healthy

In recent years, the frequent sudden deaths of young and middle-aged people have made everyone worry about their health. Especially those outstanding people who are at a critical stage in their careers may lose everything because of a moment of neglecting their health.

By chance, a foreign study found that regular blood pressure measurement can enhance the heart's ability to protect itself from ischemic damage. This means that when the heart suffers from insufficient blood supply, arterial spasm, or even myocardial infarction, it still has a chance to survive.

At this point, we can't help but feel proud again:

In the last century, Dr. Shafa, who invented cardiopulmonary resuscitation technology, was not only a pioneer in emergency medicine, critical care medicine, and disaster medicine, but also founded the University of Pittsburgh's famous Department of Anesthesiology in 1961. He spanned multiple disciplines and was truly a master.

As an anesthesiologist, I have to bow down and feel proud. This time, it is again related to anesthesia. It can be seen how closely anesthesia is related to life!

Some people say: What does this have to do with anesthesia?

This involves a concept called myocardial preconditioning, which refers to repeated short-term exposure of the myocardium to ischemia, inhaled anesthetics or other stresses, which can alleviate the damage caused by subsequent long-term ischemia, thereby reducing the area of ​​myocardial infarction and improving myocardial function after injury.

How long does it take? Studies have shown that it is 12 to 24 hours.

If you don't understand what this means, you can simply understand that if the heart is frequently deprived of blood or exposed to inhaled anesthetics or is frequently hit, its ability to withstand stress will increase.

This is equivalent to a person who is often sick can generally live a long time; while a person who has never been sick may have a more serious illness when he or she gets sick.

This can also be explained from an immune perspective: when a person is repeatedly exposed to small amounts of antigens, their immunity is undoubtedly strong.

There is another method that we recommend, which is remote ischemic preconditioning. This method is worth recommending in terms of effectiveness and cultivating good habits.

Remote ischemic preconditioning is performed in tissue beds far away from the myocardium, such as the skeletal muscles of the arms or legs, by repeatedly inflating a blood pressure cuff to induce the body's nonspecific neurotransmitters or hormones to release to protect the myocardium.

Simply put, measuring blood pressure more often can achieve this goal.

At present, many people still do not take blood pressure seriously. They even do not take blood pressure measurement seriously every day.

With this kind of research, I hope that those friends who are too lazy to measure their blood pressure will develop the good habit of monitoring their blood pressure.

Finally, we remind you again: high blood pressure is not a trivial matter. High blood pressure can invisibly damage large blood vessels, small arteries, and the heart... and once damaged, it is almost impossible to repair. Therefore, measure your blood pressure more often and control it!

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