Treat Hypertension Symptoms


It is not always easy to treat hypertension symptoms, since a person can have high blood pressure for years without a single symptom. Uncontrolled high blood pressure increases your risk of severe health problems, including heart attack and stroke. Blood pressure is dictated by the quantity of blood the heart pumps and the amount of resistance to blood flow in the arteries. The more blood the heart pumps and the narrower your arteries, the higher your blood pressure.

High blood pressure typically advances over many years, and it eventually affects almost everyone. Luckily, it can be detected, and once a patient knows they have high blood pressure, they can work with a doctor to treat hypertension. Though some people with early-stage high blood pressure may have dull headaches, dizzy spells or a few more nosebleeds than normal, these signs and hypertension symptoms typically don't occur until high blood pressure has reached an advanced - even life-threatening - stage. The excessive pressure on your artery walls caused by hypertension can harm blood vessels. The higher your blood pressure and the longer it remains uncontrolled, the greater the damage.

Uncontrolled high blood pressure can cause damage to the arteries, aneurysm, heart failure, metabolic syndrome and trouble with memory or understanding, among other conditions. In about 10% of people, high blood pressure is caused by another disease, which is called secondary hypertension. In such cases, when the main cause is treated, blood pressure usually returns to normal. Secondary hypertension causes includes conditions such as chronic kidney disease, tumors or other diseases of the adrenal gland, coarctation of the aorta (a narrowing of the aorta that you are born with that can cause high blood pressure in your arms), pregnancy, use of birth control pills, alcohol addiction, thyroid dysfunction. In the other 90% of cases, the hypertension cause is unknown, which is referred to as primary hypertension. Although the specific cause is not known, some factors are identified as contributing to high blood pressure.

Regardless of the cause, there are certain medications available to treat hypertension symptoms, like Accupril, Adalat, Aldactone, Altace, Amlodipine, Amlodipine Besylate, Calan, Capoten, Cardizem, Catapres, Cozaar, Frusemide/Amiloride, Hytrin, Inderal, Lasiride, Lopressor, Lotensin, Metoprolol, Nifedipine, Norvasc, Propranolol, Ramipril and Verapamil, which are beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors, angiotensin II receptor antagonists, alpha adrenergic blockers, or potassium-sparing diuretics, and are all used to treat hypertension symptoms.
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