High blood pressure (hypertension)

High blood pressure - some 20 million people in Germany are affected. The problem is that if the diagnosis is made, has the disease often go unnoticed for years already done damage. Healing can not reduce the high blood pressure, but. High blood pressure (technical terminology: arterial hypertension) is a common disease - one in four adults in Germany suffer from it. Still, the dangers of hypertension is underestimated. The main reason is that hypertension usually does not make any complaints at the beginning. If the diagnosis of high blood pressure then placed randomly or in a screening test, it is difficult to accept for those affected, do something about a "reading" or abstract values to have.

High blood pressure - an overview

Symptoms due to the complications set in with high blood pressure an often delayed for years. These can then usually not undo. Only if hypertension is detected early and managed to meet her, can avoid serious and potentially fatal consequences. High blood pressure can affect virtually every organ. The increased blood pressure in the damaged vessel inside the long run, especially the arteries, which in turn provide the body with blood. Complications are especially common in the brain, eyes, heart and the kidneys. reduce the high blood pressure - that is thus the goal of any treatment. So much so that the blood pressure is distributed throughout the day as the values that lie within the normal range. Often high blood pressure at the start is already helping a change in lifestyle: exercise, sports, reduce obesity, balanced diet, reducing stress. The next step is medication for high blood pressure appears - at first mostly a drug, and later combinations of several substances. Thus, the blood pressure by drugs and can usually set their own doing well.