MEDICAL TREATMENT
In general, treatments should be initiated when the average diastolic pressures for three or four months is equal to or greater than 100 mm Hg.
If smaller, to start treatment, there must be other risk factors at once, such as cardiac injury (ventricular hypertrophy, renal failure, etc.) or other risk factors (diabetes, family history of cardiovascular disease).
Must attempt to maintain the diastolic pressure below 90 mm Hg, using a treatment that the patient tolerated well. Diuretics are often used in the treatment of hypertension because, as scavengers of fat help the heart function is optimized.
Essential hypertension, ie, of unknown cause, no cure and patients must be treated with diet or drugs lifetime.
COMPLICATIONS
Maintaining a high Blood Pressure for a long period of years and not treat it can lead to many complications. Some of the most important cardiac complications such as arteriosclerosis and hypertensive heart disease.
