What exactly are the dangers of high blood pressure?
The most common claims on the Internet are these.
Common complications of hypertension
① Heart disease
(Heart failure is a common complication of hypertension, and epidemiological studies show that 40%-50% of heart failure is caused by hypertension. At the same time, hypertension is one of the main risk factors for coronary heart disease, the risk of coronary heart disease in patients with hypertension is two times higher than normal, and 50% of long-term hypertension without treatment will die from coronary heart disease. In addition, left ventricular hypertrophy can be detected in 20-30% of all hypertensive patients, and left ventricular hypertrophy occurs in 2-3 times more patients with mild hypertension than with normal blood pressure, and up to 10 times more patients with severe hypertension. Left ventricular hypertrophy is a potential risk factor for heart attack.)
②Brain hemorrhage
(This is one of the most serious complications of hypertension, with a slightly higher incidence in men, mostly in older people aged 50 to 60 years, but can also develop in younger hypertensive patients.)
③Renal failure
(Hypertension leads to glomerular arteriosclerosis, resulting in renal excretory dysfunction, disturbance of water and salt metabolism and acid-base balance, and uremia.)
④Diabetes mellitus
(Diabetes can be complicated by atherosclerosis, which can cause foot ulcers, as well as cardiovascular, renal, neurological, and retinal multiple lesions, and eventually due to renal failure.)
⑤ Ischemic stroke
(The probability of stroke in hypertension is said to be 7.76 times higher than that in normal people, and the disability rate is extremely high.)
⑥Vascular disease
(Hypertension increases the risk of intermittent claudication by 3 times, probably because elevated blood pressure accelerates the hardening of certain specific sites such as lower limb arteries, carotid arteries, and coronary arteries, leading to ischemia, nutritional disorders, and even necrosis of lower limb arteries.)
But unfortunately, many patients with hypertension do not pay much attention to medication and blood pressure in their daily treatment for a long time. Especially some young and middle-aged patients, because the pace of life is relatively fast, they do not take it seriously.
Diagram of arterial entrapment
The normal human arterial vasculature is composed of 3 layers: the inner membrane, the middle membrane and the outer membrane, which fit closely together and carry the blood flow through. Arterial entrapment, however, is a localized tear in the intima that is subjected to a strong blood shock, and the intima gradually peels off and expands, forming two lumens, a true and a false, within the artery, resulting in a series of manifestations including tear-like pain. Depending on the site of the rupture and the part of the artery where it is located, the entrapment can involve various parts of the body, and the most common and most dangerous is aortic entrapment.
Ultimately, hypertensive patients, do not take it lightly!