High blood pressure without symptoms? These common questions about high blood pressure, a popular science!

According to relevant research data, the total number of people suffering from hypertension in China has reached nearly 300 million people, and it shows a trend of getting younger. It is not new for young and middle-aged people to suffer from hypertension.

　　Even though the prevalence of hypertension is so severe, many people do not know much about hypertension, and even fall into various misunderstandings of treatment and medication after the disease, which not only affects the control of the disease, but also increases the incidence of various diseases in the future. chance of complications. Therefore, after the diagnosis of high blood pressure, you should know the following questions:

1. No symptoms without treatment?

　　Many people think that as long as the disease has no symptoms, it means that it has no effect on the body. As everyone knows, in the early stage of primary hypertension, most patients have no typical symptoms , but some people occasionally experience dizziness, headache and other symptoms, which is why nearly 1/2 of hypertensive patients in China Not diagnosed .

　　However, the absence of symptoms does not mean that it is harmless. In fact, high blood pressure continues to act on the cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, heart and kidneys . If not actively treated and controlled, various serious complications may occur in the future;

　　2. Can't stop antihypertensive drugs?

　　From a scientific point of view, the vast majority of patients with essential hypertension are long-term or even life-long after starting drug treatment. Because the blood pressure drop after medication is actually the result of the drug's action in the body, not the treatment of hypertension itself . Once the dose of the drug is reduced or stopped, the blood pressure will rise again .

　　Of course, not all hypertensive patients need lifelong medication. For example, after mild hypertension is controlled and stabilized after life adjustment, the primary disease of secondary hypertension is controlled, and blood pressure is stabilized, no further medication is required;

3. Is high blood pressure hereditary?

　　A large number of research data show that hypertension is indeed hereditary, which is the result of polygenic inheritance. Nearly 30-50% of hypertension patients have a genetic background , and nearly 60% of hypertension patients have a family history. If both parents have high blood pressure, the chances of developing high blood pressure in the offspring are relatively higher.

　　However, heredity is not the absolute and only factor of high blood pressure. In addition , obesity, diabetes and hyperlipidemia, smoking and drinking, excessive mental stress, etc., may become the breakthrough of high blood pressure;

　　4. The lower the blood pressure, the better?

　　Some hypertensive patients will try their best to lower their blood pressure in order to avoid complications from finding themselves after the disease occurs, and they blindly believe that the lower the blood pressure, the better.

　　But in fact, this is also a very wrong approach. Lowering blood pressure requires a gradual process. If you are eager to achieve success and blindly increase the amount of medicine, you will not only feel uncomfortable, but may also cause insufficient blood supply to the brain and increase the burden of pumping blood on the heart. even sudden cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases;

　　5. Is the blood pressure normal in the elderly?

　　The incidence of high blood pressure is related to age, and blood pressure does increase with age. However, even blood pressure fluctuations in the elderly are in the high normal range.

　　From a clinical point of view, as long as the arterial systolic blood pressure of the elderly exceeds 140 mmhg and the diastolic blood pressure exceeds 90 mmhg, it can be diagnosed as hypertensive disease, and targeted treatment needs to be started.

　　Finally, I would like to remind everyone that in order to correctly treat hypertension and control the next development of the disease, first of all, everyone should have a correct understanding of hypertension itself and the medication process.

　　After being diagnosed with the disease, the patient should cooperate with the doctor to start drug treatment, and regularly measure the blood pressure and record the changes in blood pressure, so as to fully understand the effect of disease control.