Hypertension. Risk and stages of hypertension

Hypertension is currently one of the most common and current issues. It is considered, that it ill people of retirement age. But lately the hypertension increasingly detected in young and middle-aged adults. This may be due to stress, heredity, unhealthy diet, low physical activity, bad habits, ecology.

Hypertension stage and extent

Symptoms of hypertension

Symptoms of hypertension Hypertension are headache, dizziness, the different nature of the "dark" in front of your eyes, weakness, nausea, nasal bleeding.

In hypertensive disease increases the pressure inside arteries that nourish all our organs. At the initial stage of the disease may not show up in any way. Periodic increases blood pressure go unnoticed until the body is trying to solve the problem on their own. Over time, the walls of blood vessels constrict due to deposits of atherosclerotic plaque in them. Plaques are formed due to deposits of cholesterol and low density lipoprotein. Over time, the atherosclerotic plaques can grow until the sealing of cavity of the arteries. Set persistent high blood pressure. Starts decompensation. Suzhenaja artery ceases to properly nourish organs. In turn, the body begins to suffer from malnutrition. In medicine it is referred to as ischemia (oxygen deprivation).

Thus, hypertension, at first glance, begins with the defeat of arteries, but causes the system to blow throughout the body. Emit in the clinic the main target organs: the brain, kidney, eye, heart and vascular system.

In view of the hidden course of the disease in the early stages of the disease, often without due examination and treatment quickly progresses.

Hypertension ICD

Stage and the degree of hypertension

Distinguish the stage and degree of hypertension. The extent of the disease is determined by the so-called value of arterial hypertension. This periodic persistent increase in blood pressure above 140 to 90 mm Hg. In normal adult healthy human blood pressure ranges from 120-129 to 80-84 mm Hg.

Cause damage of organs and tissues

The degree of hypertension

We give below classification of degrees of hypertension. First comes systolic pressure, then lower diastolic. The degrees in the diagnosis are denoted by Arabic numerals.

  • High normal blood pressure 130-139 at 85-89 mm Hg
  • 1 degree 140-159 at 90-99 mm Hg
  • 2 degree 160-179 per 100-109 mm Hg
  • 3 degree > 180 to> 110 mm Hg

Stages of hypertension

Stages of the disease depend on the degree and amount of target organ damage. In the diagnosis of the stage are denoted by Roman numerals.

  • Stage I: target organs not affected
  • Stage II: There are moderate signs of lesions in one or more target organs.
  • Stage III: there are disorders in organs with impaired functions (for example, optic nerve edema, retinopathy, coronary heart disease, heart attack, stroke, heart failure, renal decompensation, vascular atherosclerosis, etc.)

High blood pressure in hypertensionIf detected in the early stages and with an integrated approach to therapy, long-term remission can be achieved.

The development of the disease to the last stages occurs in people who do not look after their health, do not turn to specialists, do not control the level of pressure and do not adhere to continuous adequate therapy.

It is important to remember that hypertension is a chronic disease. The outcome and course of the disease depends on lifestyle, self-discipline and continuous individual treatment of the patient.

The highest mortality rates worldwide are related to such complications of hypertension as myocardial infarction and brain stroke.

Taking care of your health is the key to a long happy life. It’s time for each of us to understand that there are no magic pills and to start working on ourselves now.