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Myth: Once you start taking blood pressure medicine, you can't stop? These 3 cases can be discontinued

Confessions from hypertension:

By wu haoPublished 2 years ago 3 min read
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Confessions from hypertension:

I don't like the tension, excessive overworked, fat fat and salty food, but since the higher standards of living, human immoderate diet, cause I take root in their bodies, human never know, what time I can slowly take root in their body, after the invasion of the body, I will divide rapid growth, Encroachment on every cell and tissue of human beings, if still do not pay attention to my existence, will induce a variety of serious complications, and even endanger life safety!

According to the existing data show, hypertension patients increase year by year in our country, and the age is becoming more and more young, every year because hypertension causes more than 3 million deaths of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular accidents, 90% of the hypertensive patients die of cerebral hemorrhage, myocardial infarction, brain infarction, uremia...

Why is Hypertension on the Rise?

Changes in dietary structure

Nowadays people's life is getting better and better, so people's dietary structure has also undergone great changes, especially high salt, high fat food, has become an important factor in the formation and pathogenesis of hypertension.

In order to achieve the effective prevention and control of the treatment of hypertension, people should pay attention to reduce the intake of high calories, high fat food, in order to stabilize blood pressure, achieve the effect of preventing hypertension!

An unhealthy lifestyle

Smoking, drinking, staying up late, eating irregular meals and other unhealthy lifestyles will lead to certain damage to the vascular system in the body, not only that, blood lipid, blood glucose levels will also be affected!

Mental psychological factor

Nowadays, people need to bear more and more heavy pressure in life, long-term stress will lead to abnormal changes in body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, metabolic level, and these changes are often one of the important reasons for the formation of hypertension!

Myth: Once you start taking blood pressure medication, you can never stop?

Hypertension is a lifelong chronic disease, and this disease can not be cured by current medical methods, only through long-term medication to stabilize, avoid complications, reduce mortality.

However, many patients are worried that long-term medication will bring serious side effects to the body, so they will stop taking drugs without authorization, which is not right.

Antihypertensive drugs have the effect of lowering blood pressure by acting on a certain or several mechanisms of hypertension. Once the drug is stopped, the blocking mechanism will disappear and the blood pressure will rise again. From the perspective of health, it is not recommended to stop the drug at will!

The doctor suggests that the drug can be stopped in these 3 cases

Partial secondary hypertension

High blood pressure can be divided into primary and secondary two, from the clinical point of view, require long-term treatment with essential hypertension (eh), but the secondary hypertension is caused by other diseases, if it is a secondary hypertension, after after recovering from the disease, blood pressure will gradually returned to normal, then also don't have to continue taking blood pressure medication.

Hypertension of pregnancy

Pregnancy-induced hypertension is a common disease of obstetrics and gynecology. During pregnancy, due to uterine placental ischemia, uterine tension, prostaglandin deficiency and abnormal metabolism, the situation of elevated blood pressure occurs. Generally, this situation does not require special treatment, but only needs to improve living habits and eating habits.

In the right way, blood pressure is stabilized

Many hypertensive patients, after taking antihypertensive drugs for a long time, realize the seriousness of hypertension. In order to avoid aggravation of the disease, they will actively adjust their lifestyle. After the blood pressure is effectively stabilized through the correct lifestyle, they can reduce the amount of medication or stop taking medication at the doctor's suggestion!

Knowledge expansion: What is the range of normal blood pressure?

1, Grade 1 hypertension: if the systolic blood pressure > 140mmHg, diastolic blood pressure over 90mmHg, diastolic blood pressure between 90-95mmHg, systolic blood pressure between 140-160mmHg, defined as grade 1 hypertension;

2. Grade 2 hypertension: grade 2 hypertension is defined if the diastolic blood pressure exceeds 100mmHg and the systolic blood pressure exceeds 160mmHg.

3. Grade 3 hypertension: if the systolic blood pressure exceeds 110mmHg, it is defined as grade 3 hypertension, including systolic blood pressure over 180mmHg.

Hazards of high blood pressure:

Hypertension can be classified as grade 1, 2 and 3.

Grade 1 hypertension is relatively harmless, usually does not require medication, and can be managed with diet and physical exercise to improve lifestyle habits.

More than 2 levels of high blood pressure, especially the long-term high blood pressure, which can lead to target organs such as heart, brain and kidney damage, caused by coronary artery, renal artery vasospasm for a long time, cause atherosclerosis, reduce the blood supply to vital organs, and lead to coronary heart disease, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, stroke, chronic renal insufficiency, renal failure and other diseases, therefore after the diagno

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