DIAGNOSTICS AND THERAPY OF HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE AND SYMPTOMATIC ARTERIAL HYPERTENSIONS
Many of us treat high blood pressure or hypertonia as something inevitable and not dangerous. We know that millions of people have high blood pressure and are not disabled. They continue to work, to travel and to live their normal lives. High blood pressure is not cancer or meningitis and seems not to demand urgent medical assistance. Meanwhile, it is quite the opposite. If we study the statistics of mortality and disability, high arterial pressure is a number one killer, it is not cancer, or COVID-19. This disguise of insignificant disease makes people underestimate the disorder that can significantly, and, sometimes, catastrophically influence their lives.
It is not only the matter of the strokes and infarctions that are frequently underlain by high blood pressure. Daily effect of the blood pressure on the organs and body systems, which is not very high but only slightly increased is no less important. Just imagine that every day our heart makes about a hundred thousand contractions. And now the heart has to overcome additional resistance of high blood pressure, i.e. 100 000 times of additional resistance per 24 hours. First, that leads to the increased size of the heart, irreversible exhaustion of the heart capacities and development of heart insufficiency (short wind, edema and so on). But the problems are not restricted to the heart. Constantly increased blood pressure leads to the disorders of kidneys, eyesight, blood supply and many others. Meanwhile, it is not so easy to discern the reasons of high blood pressure. It is not always associated with “genuine” hypertonic disease, which is conditioned by the immediate change in the vessels and not other factors. High blood pressure is frequently induced by the diseases of kidneys, adrenal glands, thyroid gland, disorders of water-salt metabolism, hormones and so on. Frequently, the patients keep taking pills “from blood pressure” for years, while the true reason for high blood pressure remains unknown and manifests only in severe disorders of the “causative organs”.
Another important aspect is that contemporary views of the methods to correct high blood pressure change rather often. This is associated with new evidence and with the production of new more effective medicines that are able not only to correct high blood pressure but also to protect heart, kidneys and other organs. Unfortunately, not all doctors are able to stay in the picture and frequently they prescribe the therapy according to outdated algorithms.
The specialists of NeuroVita clinical hospital can help you make out the clinical symptoms, laboratory and functional tests and detect the real reasons of high blood pressure as well as to evaluate the condition of the involved organs and tissues and to select contemporary individually tailored therapy.
