If a person periodically has high blood pressure, then he should consult a doctor, as this symptom is the main one for such a disease as arterial hypertension. In itself, a small increase in blood pressure is not very dangerous, however, if it is present constantly, then this may well lead to the development of serious complications.
The causes of high blood pressure can be different. To date, it is customary to distinguish the so-called essential and secondary hypertension. The first option assumes the absence of any clearly proven cause. By the way, essential arterial hypertension as a diagnosis is made in 90% of cases when there is a constant high pressure. Secondary hypertension often occurs when the increase in pressure is due to an already existing disease. Most often we are talking about renal pathology.
Arterial hypertension is quite difficult to treat. This is largely due to the ambiguity of the causes of its occurrence. At the same time, it is reliably known that high blood pressure is very common in obese people.of people. Each kilogram dropped allows you to reduce it by 1 mmHg. As a result, if a person with arterial hypertension is overweight, then, first of all, he should deal with the normalization of his body weight,
because this is the most physiological and effective measure.
Besides this, if the pressure is high, the patient should not abuse table s alt. Do not consume more than 5 g of s alt per day. Even better, if you can reduce its consumption to 3 g per day. Also, patients who are characterized by hypodynamia are recommended to do physical education. Naturally, this takes into account the functional capabilities of a person. Such methods are often very effective if the patient has a 1st degree of arterial hypertension. When the disease reaches the 2nd and even more so the 3rd degree, it is necessary to use special antihypertensive agents. In this case, the treatment of high blood pressure usually begins with any one drug (ACE inhibitors are especially common, which, however, are contraindicated in pregnant women). In more severe cases, a combination of medicines is recommended.
In the event that the pressure is high, it is necessary to try to return it to a normal level, since uncompensated arterial hypertension promises a huge number of various complications. In this case, small vessels are quite often affected, which is expressed in a progressive loss of vision,as well as increasing kidney problems. In addition, the risk of various kinds of strokes, aneurysms and heart attacks increases. Constantly experiencing increased pressure, the vessels gradually become more and more dense and ultimately less and less responsive to treatment with drugs. It is for this reason that if the pressure is high, it is necessary to try to reduce it to a normal level (less than 140/90 mmHg).
