Let us know more about the hazards due to hypertension. Many hypertensive patients underestimate the disease, because the majority of hypertensive patients did not experience any complaints. A small portion have complaints of dizziness, headache, and neck feel tight. Since the complaint did not feel heavy, hypertension is often underestimated. Know the dangers of hypertension is necessary for patients with hypertension have a strong motivation to avoid the complications of hypertension. Complications of hypertension increases with an increase in blood pressure.
Here is a complication of hypertension:
1. Heart Disease: Coronary Heart Disease.
Heart Failure. Coronary Heart Disease is caused due to arise plaque on the coronary arteries (atherosclerosis). If interference occurs on the plaque (rupture), it can happen blockage in the coronary arteries that cause heart attacks and sudden death. Patients with coronary heart disease typically complain of chest pain such as crushed by heavy objects at the center of the chest and may spread to the left arm. Heart failure occurs because the heart muscle so that the heavy load becomes hypertrophied heart muscle, known as Heart Disease Hypertension. If the process continues and already exhausted heart muscle, heart failure occurs.
2. Stroke.
Hypertension can lead to atherosclerosis in the blood vessels of the brain or rupture of blood vessels of the brain when blood pressure rises suddenly. When the brain is blocked blood vessel ischemic stroke. Meanwhile, when the brain's blood vessels rupture, bleeding stroke. Symptoms of stroke varies from talking pelo sudden, sudden paralysis of one side of the body, and even death. Stroke patients generally take a long time to restore the function of paralyzed muscles, some muscle paralysis is permanent.
3. Chronic renal failure.
High blood pressure in the long term will lead to chronic renal failure. Chronic renal failure occurs slowly without complaint. When you have reached the final stages of the disease, then the complaint arises. After a complaint arises, the damaged kidney function has been unable to return to normal. People who have kidney failure requiring dialysis (hemodialysis) regularly 2-3 times a week or a kidney transplant that requires a very large cost.
4. Blindness due to hypertensive retinopathy. Hypertension can cause blindness. The blood vessels in the retina disrupted and eventually lead to blindness.
5. Peripheral Arterial Disease. Hypertension can also cause interference with the large arteries in the extremities of the body, which usually occurs in the legs. Together with the underlying processes that occur in coronary heart disease. Complaint is leg pain that occurs when the move.
Have your blood pressure controlled? The goal of treatment of hypertension is only one, namely to achieve the target blood pressure so that complications can be avoided. Consult with your doctor about blood pressure targets need to be achieved and the means necessary.
source:
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [http://cdc.gov] When it Comes to Blood Pressure, Control Make Your Goal. Available forms: http://www.cdc.gov/Features/HighBloodPressure/
• Madhur MS, Maron DJ. Hypertension. Medscape Reference. 2013.
