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Hypertension is a common chronic disease, with a high incidence in middle-aged and elderly people. However, with the development of society and the change of people's living habits, the incidence of hypertension in young people has gradually increased. Among them, the office workers who sit in the office for a long time and lack of exercise become one of the high-risk groups of hypertension.
After controlling for factors such as age and family, studies have shown that people who are sedentary and less physically active are more likely to have high blood pressure than those who are more active.
This is because sitting for a long time will affect the body's blood circulation, leading to poor Qi and blood operation, decreased blood volume of systemic vessels (peripheral blood volume), thereby increasing blood circulation resistance, leading to hypertension.
In addition, often sedentary without exercise, if you do not control dietary intake, will be disguised to store fat, it is easy to cause obesity, and obesity will make the heart burden, which will indirectly promote diabetes, hyperlipidemia, hypertension and other diseases. Especially for older adults, sedentary time is associated with a higher risk of high blood pressure than younger adults.
Many office workers have to sit in front of a computer for a long time because of their work needs. But sitting in an office for a long time, it's easy to accumulate fat, it's easy to get fat, overweight, obese and overweight people have a much higher risk of high blood pressure than the general population. Hypertension is the most important factor leading to cardiovascular diseases, more than 40% of cardiovascular diseases can be attributed to hypertension.
Since sitting is so harmful, how can we reduce the harm in our daily work and life?
So far, there is no universally accepted standard. The 2016 guidelines from the American Diabetes Association state that everyone should reduce their sedentary time, especially if they sit for more than 90 minutes.
Accordingly, white-collar people are during go to work, also want to remind oneself often rise activity.For example, stand up once an hour, get up to pour a glass of water or walk around the hall. Or do some simple moderate activities, such as chest exercise, stretching, pointe and so on.
Stretching is also a good way to relieve space constraints in an office.
Stretching can cause most of the muscles of the body to contract strongly, and in a short time, the blood will be squeezed back to the heart and improve blood circulation. At the same time, stretching can also make the neck blood vessels comfortably send blood to the brain, so that the brain of the human body gets sufficient nutrition, so as to eliminate fatigue, to achieve the effect of refreshing.
The above information is for reference only. Follow your doctor's advice if it happens.
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