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1. Chintia devi
2. Dian Oktavia
3. Farida safitri

HYPERTENSITION

A. DEFINITION
Hypertension is a chronic medical condition with increased blood pressure in the
arteries. This increase causes the heart to work harder than normal to circulate blood through
the blood vessels.
Blood pressure involves two measurements, systolic and diastolic, depending on
whether the heart muscle contraction (systole) or relaxation in between beats (diastole).
Normal blood pressure at rest is in the range of systolic (upper reading) 100-140 mmHg and
diastolic (bottom reading) 60-90 mmHg. High blood pressure occurs when constantly be at
140/90 mmHg or more.

B. SIGN AND SYMPTOMS

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Headache
Easy to get angry
Ringing in the ears
Eyes feel heavy or blurred vision
tiredness
insomnia
A pain in the nape
Blood pressure greater than normal

C. ETIOLOGY
1. Age factor : The increasing age of a person reduces the elasticity of the blood vessels
so that blood pressure in the body of people who are elderly will increase and can
exceed normal limits
2. Heredity : Parents who have high blood pressure or hypertension is likely to lower it
to his son.

3. Gender Factors :45-year-old man who is more at risk for high blood pressure than
women, while the women aged over 65 years are at greater risk of high blood
pressure.
4. Sports factors : People who have never done a variety of sports will be more at risk
for high blood pressure, never exercise causes the heart to become unhealthy and will
lead to blood flow in the body becomes not smooth
5. Diet : if someone often consuming foods that have high fat levels he would risk for
hypertension. High fat foods will menbuat blockage in the blood vessels so
that blood pressure will be up and cause hypertension.
6. Drinking Alcohol : Alcoholic beverages will increase the levels of triglycerides in the
blood, triglycerides are bad cholesterol that can cause blood pressure to rise
drastically
7. Stress :If people are under stress hormones adrenalinyanya will be increased further
so that it will cause the blood pressure in the body to rise.

D. PREVENTION
1. Ideal weight
2. Eat nutritious foods.
3. Exercise regularly.
4. Changing habits (less smoking, drinking coffee).
5. Reduce fatty foods and high salt.
6. Control regularly to the clinic / health facilities.
7. Avoid stress.

E. TREATMENT
1. Two cucumber eaten morning and afternoon or grated, squeezed, take water drunk in
the morning and afternoon.
2. Two star fruit is eaten morning and afternoon or grated, squeezed and taken water is
taken morning and evening
3. Ten bay leaves boiled in 2 cups water to 1 cup boiled, taken morning and evening
4. Ten pieces of avocado leaves boiled in 2 cups of water until the water one glass
5. A handful of celery leaves squeezed pounded with a little water and then drink the
morning and afternoon.