Hypertension

Hypertension

Hypertension is a condition that is also known as high blood pressure. Most people that have hypertension don't really show any visible signs or symptoms, aside from taking someone’s blood pressure for a routine check up from the doctor. According to ceaccp.oxfordjoural.org: “National surveys continue to reveal that hypertension is often not detected and, where diagnosed, is often inadequately treated.” But in early stages of Hypertension, it may show mild headaches and mildly frequent nosebleeds, but could show symptoms if the high blood pressure reached a severe level to the person’s health.

The prognosis of hypertension can cause strokes or a hard cardiac life. From the South Sudan Medical Journal, Hypertension can also lead to Diabetes Mellitus (Type 2), Hypercholesterolaemia(a presence of high levels of cholesterol in the blood.), Obesity, and evidences of organ damage. The cause of the condition could be a lack of an exercise regiment and a poor proper eating diet, but in the South Sudan Medical Journal states that “ essential hypertension has no clear underlying cause but appears to be the result of an interplay of complex genetic and environmental factors.” Hypertension can also lead to death over a long period of time.

The treatment or the management for hypertension is with Pharmaceutical medicine but that just if needed. “Pharmaceutical agents, well evidenced by large randomized clinical trials, are available for initial treatment of high BP. These include older molecules such as thiazide diuretics and beta-blocking agents and newer molecules, dihydropyridine calcium channel blockers (CCB), angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB). Another way to treat hypertension is to practice a non-pharmacological lifestyle. “Lifestyle changes should be the initial approach to hypertension management and include dietary interventions (reducing salt, increasing potassium, alcohol avoidance, and...