{"id":13175,"date":"2014-08-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/home\/proche-2\/controlling-your-blood-pressure\/"},"modified":"2023-06-06T16:22:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T20:22:24","slug":"controlling-your-blood-pressure","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/diabetes\/information-on-diabetes\/associated-diseases\/controlling-your-blood-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Controlling your blood pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The majority of people with <a href=\"\/en\/diabetes\/information-on-diabetes\/type-2-diabetes\/\">type 2 diabetes<\/a> and a good number of those with <a href=\"\/en\/diabetes\/information-on-diabetes\/type-1-diabetes\/\">type 1 diabetes<\/a> have high blood pressure, also known as hypertension. Most often, high blood pressure has no symptoms; hence the importance of regular screening tests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Complications<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>High blood pressure is truly a time bomb. By prematurely aging all the body\u2019s blood vessels, it contributes to many diabetes complications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It promotes atherosclerosis (fatty deposits on the interior arterial walls) and can lead to a heart attack, stroke (cerebral thrombosis), heart failure and kidney failure (nephropathy).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Monitoring and <strong>controlling<\/strong> your blood pressure<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Blood pressure is measured with two numbers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The larger number represents systolic pressure (the pressure exerted on the walls of the arteries when the heart beats)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The smaller number represents diastolic pressure (the pressure exerted on the walls of the arteries between heart beats)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Prevention<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In some cases, lifestyle changes suffice to maintain a person\u2019s blood pressure at acceptable values. For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Adopting a healthy diet (a <a href=\"\/en\/diabetes\/diabetes-management\/diet\/the-dash-diet\/\">DASH diet<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cutting back on <a href=\"\/en\/diabetes\/diabetes-management\/diet\/sodium\/\">sodium (salt)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Drinking alcohol in moderation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Being physically active every day<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maintaining or aiming for a <a href=\"\/en\/diabetes\/living-with-diabetes\/weight-management\/weight-management-in-adults\/\">healthy weight<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Taking medication as prescribed<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Quitting smoking<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Adopting healthy <a href=\"\/en\/diabetes\/diabetes-management\/well-being-and-mental-health\/stress-and-diabetes\/\">stress management<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In other cases, an antihypertensive medication may need to be prescribed, but it should not substitute for a healthy diet and an active lifestyle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Importance of maintaining a <strong>healthy<\/strong> weight<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>People who are overweight are twice as likely to have high blood pressure as those who are a healthy weight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you carry extra fat on your abdomen, you have a greater risk of developing high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease than if you carry it on your hips and thighs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Research has shown that a loss of 5% to 10% (4 kg or 10 lb) of your initial weight can reduce your blood pressure and also reduce the need for antihypertensive medication, even if you don\u2019t attain a healthy weight. If your weight is affecting your health, this can be an extra motivation for starting a healthy weight management program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High blood pressure, also known as &#8220;hypertension&#8221;, is present in the majority of people with type 2 diabetes and in a good number of people with type 1 diabetes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25752,"parent":24330,"menu_order":154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"7588,12762,9061,8912,255,12973","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13175","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13175"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29292,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13175\/revisions\/29292"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}