Do must be lifelong medication in patients with hypertension

Must do taking this month's expert for life in hypertensive patients: first clinical College of Harbin Medical University Cardiology Professor Guan Deming

For most patients with hypertension, need lifetime taking antihypertensive drugs, blood pressure control in the context of the ideal, to reduce the incidence of complications. However, also part of the patients with hypertension do not need medication for life:

1. Psychological stress caused by excessive hypertension, for example, high school students before college entrance examination of psychological pressure, burden, irregular life when blood pressure is often high, after appropriate psychological adjustment and antihypertensive medications, blood pressure can often return to normal.

2. Patients with influenza, because of elevated body temperature and heart rate to speed up, sometimes blood pressure phenomenon, after flu cure, blood pressure will return to normal.

3. Brief neuropsychological factors stimulating or mental tension, can lead to transient elevation of blood pressure, such as by Ferris-wheel after frightened, blood pressure rises; watching TV for days too late, stress, blood pressure will rise, after appropriate neural regulation of drugs and after treatment with antihypertensive drugs, blood pressure returned to normal.

4. Gestational hypertension, blood pressure is not restored properly after birth, after appropriate antihypertensive drugs and improving blood circulation after drug treatment, most people can return to normal blood pressure.

5. Women in climacteric hypertension occurs often, is due to endocrine dysfunction, caused after regulating drugs and antihypertensive drugs for the treatment of menopause, with the end of menopause, most patients can return to normal blood pressure.

6. Regular night, people living in irregular, and adjustment disorders, prone to hypertension, early recovery, law lives, hypertension can be a significant improvement.

7. Some drugs can cause elevation of blood pressure, stop using the drugs, blood pressure returned to normal.

8. Adrenal cortical hyperplasia of renal artery stenosis, and increased aldosterone and other causes of secondary hypertension, if cause for granting positive and effective treatment, high blood pressure can be cured. See March 26, 2009 Edition of the family health report of the original "hotline"