Arterial hypertension: consequences, what does it lead to?

The consequences of arterial hypertension, especially if a person is negligent in treatment, are often the most serious. Hypertension stage 2-3 in most cases leads to heart failure, tachycardia, arrhythmia, coronary heart disease, and left ventricular myocardial hypertrophy. Hypertensive patients almost always suffer from shortness of breath even with minimal physical exertion, headaches, and their vision often deteriorates.

It's better not to joke with hypertension

Hypertension is a disease that in our century is diagnosed by many people, but not everyone treats this disease in the same way.

The list of consequences of high blood pressure, which often goes beyond what is permitted, includes diseases such as:

• heart failure;
• vegetovascular dystonia;
• arrhythmia;

• tachycardia;
• kidney failure;
• myocardial infarction;
• stroke;
• atherosclerosis;
• thrombosis;
• phlebeurysm;
• eye pressure;
• intracranial pressure;
• deterioration of vision or complete loss of visual ability;
• memory and speech disorders.

In hypertension, when high blood pressure is noted for a long time, blood vessels become inelastic, and their walls thicken due to cholesterol deposits.

Hypertension and atherosclerosis are faithful companions. Due to the deposition of atherosclerotic plaques on the walls of blood vessels, the lumen noticeably narrows, which leads to an increase in blood flow resistance - this is the reason for high pressure in the vessels on which there are atherosclerotic deposits. When the coronary arteries, which are responsible for supplying blood to the heart muscle, are damaged, the patient develops a diagnosis called angina pectoris, or in medical slang, angina pectoris. As the disease progresses, one or more arteries can become clogged with blood clots, in which case the heart does not receive the necessary amount of blood or is completely cut off from the blood flow and one of the most serious cardiac diseases occurs - myocardial infarction.

Often, the vessels of the fundus undergo a change if there are atherosclerotic deposits, and in this case, vision may deteriorate in a hypertensive patient.

If a person has an excess of the norm of blood pressure for a long period, then there is a violation of visual perceptions. First, the patient has flickering flies running before his eyes, this often happens when changing the position of the body, especially at the moment of changing the horizontal position to a vertical position.

It is also likely that with hypertension, the patient has pain in the eyes due to the fact that the visual organ is experiencing increased pressure. Unfortunately, the retina is too vulnerable and with arterial hypertension it is possible that the patient may not only partially lose his sight, but, as noted above, the patient may even go blind.

What causes high blood pressure

Experts say that the consequences of high pressure are dangerous complications. Hypertension affects many internal organs, which are often referred to in medical circles as target organs. First of all, the vascular system suffers, followed by the heart muscle, brain, kidneys and, as mentioned above, vision.

The heart muscle with high blood pressure experiences a constant load in excess of the norm. The heart is forced to function in a rhythm unusual for it, which, of course, causes it to wear out much faster. Among other things, heart failure is fraught with swelling of the extremities, shortness of breath.

Everything is interconnected in the body, which means that the higher the blood pressure, the harder it is for the heart muscle to cope with its direct duties - to maintain a normal level of blood circulation. Therefore, when hypertension is not treated in a timely manner, there is a risk that the heart muscle will begin to function intermittently, the walls of the vessels become thinner, and this, in turn, will lead to impaired blood supply.

One of the most dangerous complications of high blood pressure is the complications that occur in the parts of the brain due to circulatory disorders.

Hypertension has a bad effect on the vessels of the brain, often this disease causes mental disorders, memory impairment, headaches, dizziness. But the worst thing is that the patient may experience a hypertensive crisis, and this can provoke a stroke.

After the first stroke, as a rule, the hypertensive person recovers, but the second or third attack can cause a fatal outcome - the death of a person.

Consequences of a hypertensive crisis

The concept - hypertensive crisis - is a general term for such conditions when the systolic pressure exceeds 180 mm Hg, and the lower, or as it is commonly called, diastolic pressure is recorded on the tonometer screen at around 120 mm Hg. Art. and higher.

Arterial hypertension is the main cause of hypertensive crisis. This condition of the patient is a very serious threat, both to human health and his life. If you do not provide timely assistance to the patient, then the consequences can become the most sad.

It is also noted that the consequences of high blood pressure can appear in people at a young age, but they occur especially often in older patients. For example, doctors warn that when pressure readings go off scale, dissection of an aortic aneurysm can occur. In this case, the delay in death is similar, therefore, it is necessary to reduce the pressure in a short time by any available methods and methods.

But when the patient has an acute violation of the blood circulation of the brain, then in this case, on the contrary, blood pressure should be reduced gradually, very carefully, so that consequences of this kind do not occur, such as:

• acute form of cerebral infarction;
• hemorrhage in the brain;
• angina, namely, the diagnosis is unstable angina;
• acute hypertensive encephalopathy.

A hypertensive crisis can cause pulmonary edema, acute heart failure, heart attack and stroke.

Kidney damage, paralysis, loss of speech function, dementia are also consequences of a hypertensive crisis. Of course, this can also happen in those people who leave arterial hypertension untreated, in other words, in those who do not want to realize that the consequences of untreated stage 3 hypertension can be the most serious, and sometimes irreversible.

Experts have reliably established that hypertension, especially one that is not treated correctly and in a timely manner, causes premature death of a person.

Statistics show that in 70 patients out of 100 myocardial infarction and in 80 patients out of the same number, a stroke occurs precisely because of high blood pressure, which in the vast majority of cases remained either untreated or not treated properly at all.

It would be useful to recall that people suffering from high blood pressure and not taking prescribed drugs, the risk of developing various complications is very high.

It is important to remember that hypertension does not tolerate inadmissible attitude towards itself and can cause premature death.