Treatment
The treatment of high blood pressure, as well as all accompanying symptoms and secondary diseases, follows the therapeutic goal of permanently and permanently lowering blood pressure to normal values. The upper blood pressure limit is 140/90 mmHg, with 120/80mmHg representing the ideal blood pressure. In order to achieve these values, an adjustment of lifestyle may already be sufficient in early stages.
In more severe stages, this includes drug therapy, for which many different pharmaceuticals can be used alone or in combination. The therapy of neurological concomitant diseases, eye damage or damage to internal organs is also mainly carried out by lowering the blood pressure. In advanced diseases, vascular damage can also be treated symptomatically with medication and surgery.
- A healthy, low-salt diet,
- Weight reduction,
- Moderate physical activity and
- Sufficient sleep.
Duration
The duration of high blood pressure is difficult to estimate. In young people and slightly elevated blood pressure values, blood pressure can often be successfully treated by adjusting one’s lifestyle. In the vast majority of cases, however, it is a chronic disease that persists permanently.
About 50-75% of all adults suffer from permanent high blood pressure during their lifetime. With the help of a targeted, verified and permanent therapy, consequential damage can be prevented, so that high blood pressure is not a risk factor for further diseases. In old age, however, a great many people suffer from vascular damage and secondary diseases, some of which are attributed to high blood pressure.
Course of disease
The course of the disease is very variable and can vary greatly from individual to individual. In the best case, high blood pressure can be controlled by a healthy lifestyle or a well adjusted drug therapy in such a way that no secondary diseases and damage to organs of the body occur during the course of the disease. If this is not the case, however, damage to blood vessels, the brain, the eyes, kidneys, heart and lungs can occur over decades with varying degrees of severity.
Over the years, this can result in serious diseases. In rare cases, acute life-threatening crises of high blood pressure can also occur with greatly increased values, which can cause acute damage to the brain and other organs. Thus, high blood pressure is a very variable disease, which for most of the time runs without symptoms, but in the course of time leads to acute, serious adverse health events, but above all to chronic long-term damage to vital organs.
