Even a practically healthy person should monitor their blood pressure.
Treatment of high blood pressure is necessary and will protect you from heart disease, stroke, vision loss, chronic kidney disease, and other vascular conditions.
When, despite lifestyle changes, blood pressure cannot be normalized, drug therapy is necessary. If you have a history of any disease, you should be guided by the instructions of your doctor and take the medication according to the prescribed course. If you have already been diagnosed with hypertension (high blood pressure), you should take the medication as prescribed by your doctor.
If you are a practically healthy person (i.e. a person who is not bothered by anything, has no symptoms, and does not have any diseases in your history) and you have measured your blood pressure and noticed that the indicator is 160/100 or higher, you should take a blood pressure lowering drug without any questions.
If you have any medical condition, your doctor will have already told you what blood pressure reading is considered high and what medication to take, so follow your doctor's instructions.
Some important information about blood pressure:
- For some people, lifestyle changes are enough to lower blood pressure;
- To stabilize blood pressure, you need to lose weight and maintain a healthy weight for your body mass index;
- Limit salt in your diet as much as possible;
- Quit smoking;
- Control alcohol;
- Physical activity is essential;
- Stable blood pressure requires a healthy diet;
- Your doctor may have already prescribed you a blood pressure medication, but you won't get the desired results with medication alone, and you should also follow a healthy lifestyle;
- If you often have high blood pressure, you should see your doctor and find out the cause.
Your doctor will consider it necessary to prescribe a blood pressure medication if:
- You have high blood pressure;
- You have organ damage or other health problems (heart failure, coronary artery disease, diabetes, kidney disease);
- You are at risk for a heart attack or stroke.
Source:
https://myhealth.alberta.ca/Health/pages/conditions.aspx?hwid=zx1768
