What is the best treatment?
Today we have many drugs to treat hypertensive patients. The ideal treatment should be effective, safe, easy to perform, without adverse economic effects. Unfortunately, all these features are hard to find in a single drug, but every day makes more progress in achieving the objective. Modern treatments have demonstrated efficacy of 50 to 70%, and by combining two or more drugs are able to control blood pressure over 90% of cases.
The objective of the consultation is whether the pressure is controlled with treatment, and if you did not take medication is impossible to know. The drugs exert their action during a given time; past it are metabolized and eliminated from the body.
A drug taken for so many years in a row, can cause some damage in the body?
This, as above, is also very common. For fear of buying something to stop serving, the patient prefers not to acquire You can go to the office with high blood pressure. If for some reason, your doctor decides to change the drug, it can serve for later or to be combined with another. It’s rarely happen because the drugs demonstrated use us today have even harm their safety without causing long-term treatment.
What we do is proven, is that uncontrolled hypertension leads to serious complications.
Does treatment can cause impotence?
It is a very common concern among our patients. Some drugs to employ, but practically this is avoided when used in low doses. Moreover, there are now new drugs that affect sexual function.
Is it for life?
Hypertension is a disease that is not cured, but controlled, therefore requires lifelong treatment. An example: if you are over 45 years and has to wear glasses to see up close, knows that when evil is not used (hypertension) and when you put them, you see everything clearer (treatment) and must use Lifetime (treatment must be sustained).
Why if I take a drug, I lower the pressure?
While the cause of hypertension is mostly unknown, we know that there are several mechanisms by which a person may have hypertension. Different drugs work by blocking a mechanism generally therefore often have to take two or more drugs to “block all the mechanisms” and thus able to control their hypertension
Tags: blood pressure, drugs, Hypertension, Hypertension Treatment, hypertensive patients
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