How To Treat Mild Hypertension

To Treat or Not to Treat EDWARD D. Although all of these patients are at greater risks of premature cardiovascular disease the risks are manifested.

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FROHLICH MD FACC New Orleans Louisiana 447 Over the past three decades a meaningful sequence of suc cesses was realized in the cardiovasculararea each resulting from the demonstration that antihypertensive agents are ef fective in reducing cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.

How to treat mild hypertension. Hypertension or high blood pressure is dangerous because it can lead to strokes heart attacks heart failure or kidney diseaseThe goal of hypertension treatment is to lower high blood. The benefits of treating mild hypertension in patients without cardiovascular disease are less clear but recent meta-analyses offer some insights. Possible side effects include headaches swollen ankles and constipation.

Early and aggressive drug therapy for mild hypertension now widely prescribed in the United States may be inappropriate for many of the 30 million patients with this condition. To treat or not to treat. Calcium channel blockers reduce blood pressure by widening your blood vessels.

If your blood pressure measures between this range your doctor may. Although all of these patients are at greater risks of premature cardiovascular disease the. A new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that even if you only have mild or stage 1 hypertension treatment can substantially reduce your risk of death.

Early and aggressive drug therapy for mild hypertension now widely prescribed in the United States may be inappropriate for many of the 30 million patients with this condition. Its important to be consistent because if you stop exercising your blood pressure can rise again. The major risk factor associated with cardiovascular disease has been found from various epidemiological studies to be elevated blood pressure.

Systolic 160 and higher diastolic 100 and higher. Despite the clear-cut result of the Australian Therapeutic Trial in Mild Hypertension which demonstrated prospectively the benefit of treatment of diastolic blood pressure in the range of 95 to 109 mm Hg a retrospective analysis that classified subjects by the average diastolic pressure level attained during the trial purported to show an absence of treatment benefit at lower average. Stage 1 or mild hypertension is defined as a blood pressure reading of 130139 over 8089.

Other medicines such as diltiazem and verapamil are also available. Blood pressure is. Early and aggressive drug therapy for mild hypertension now widely prescribed in the United States may be inappropriate for many of the 30 million patients with this condition.

Regular physical activity such as 150 minutes a week or about 30 minutes most days of the week can lower your blood pressure by about 5 to 8 mm Hg if you have high blood pressure. The definition of mild hypertension was decided back in 1977 based on expert opinion not clinical evidence. In the US where health care costs are already the highest in the.

Doctors didnt prescribe drugs for it then but now they virtually all do so that 94 of people age 65 and. However this has led doctors to treat mild hypertension at increasingly lower blood pressure levels. More than half of people with mild hypertension are treated with drugs but there has been no evidence to suggest that blood pressure-lowering drugs prevent heart attacks.

24 2014 -- Treating mild high blood pressure with drugs has unclear benefit and adds steep sums to national health care expenses experts write in. Pooled data from trials that include a large percentage of participants with mild hypertension show significant reductions in stroke death from cardiovascular disease and total mortality. Common examples are amlodipine felodipine and nifedipine.

In the second half of this century morbidity and mortality from cardiovascular disease has reached epidemic proportions. Although all of these patients are at greater risks of premature cardiovascular disease the risks are manifested neither quickly nor uniformly. Systolic 140159 diastolic 9099.

Drug therapy has not proved beneficial for patients with a. Walker JM Beevers DG.

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