Primary prevention of stroke from the point of view of Ningen Dock and Brain Dock

Abstract

Most important factor to prevent stroke for the first time is hypertension. However, there are relatively few people who get normal blood pressure, although they aware their own hypertension. Recently that tendency was called “hypertension Paradox”. In Japan many people receive medical checkup which named “Ningen Dock” or “Brain Dock”. At those medical checkup, the measured blood pressures are often dissociated from the blood pressure of the usual daily life. Especially, people with 50 years old or higher have been spending tough and stressful days. The percentage of those stressful time part per day sometimes become very high. We should distinguish the difference of their life pattern to evaluate their blood pressure data at “Ningen dock”, or “Brain Dock”.