Asymptomatic hypertension is a very deadly condition. Normally, your body seems to be fine, but at some point, hypertension may suddenly strike you silently. This is the most common case of “asymptomatic hypertension,” says Professor Jizhen Guo, who says that many people with hypertension are asymptomatic, accounting for about half of the clinical cases. This type of blood pressure rises slowly in a stepwise fashion, from mild to moderate to severe, and patients can gradually adapt to this slow rise in blood pressure, so even though the blood pressure is already high, there may be no symptoms or discomfort, just like normal people, resulting in untimely diagnosis and treatment, which is often more dangerous than symptomatic hypertension. Some people have sudden brain hemorrhage, heart attack and other accidents as a result, and only before they die is their blood pressure found to be too high, but it is already difficult to control. The best way to deal with asymptomatic hypertension is to prevent it as early as possible. People with high risk factors such as advanced age, dyslipidemia, obesity, and heart disease should always have a blood pressure monitor at home and have their blood pressure measured once a month or once every two months. In addition, people with high-risk factors often take painkillers indiscriminately to relieve pain when they have headache symptoms of hypertension, rather than having timely checkups, which can also easily delay the timely diagnosis and treatment of hypertension and even lead to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular accidents. Nowadays, most of the patients who often go to the hypertension clinic are old patients who insist on treatment for years, or patients with very obvious symptoms and complications, and early hypertension patients are less likely to go to the hospital, while the emergency department of the hospital often encounters some acute patients with stroke, hypertensive crisis and heart failure due to hypertension, which is mainly related to patients’ lack of awareness of the dangers of hypertension, health care This is mainly related to patients’ lack of awareness of the dangers of hypertension, lack of awareness of health care, and reluctance to take medication. The symptoms of hypertension vary from person to person and may be asymptomatic or insignificant in the early stages. Many patients find an increase in blood pressure by chance during physical examination, but ignore it because they have no symptoms and let their blood pressure remain at a high level. Persistent high blood pressure can damage the heart, brain, kidneys and other important organs, eventually leading to serious complications such as stroke, heart failure and kidney failure, endangering health and life.
Generally speaking, about half of the patients with early hypertension do not have any symptoms, but patients with asymptomatic hypertension have a slow and persistent rise in blood pressure, and patients are no longer sensitive to the rise in blood pressure and are easily neglected. Asymptomatic hypertension is most often seen in older people over 60 years of age, who have no obvious symptoms because their body functions are declining and they are not sensitive to the disease. Asymptomatic hypertension is insidious and more dangerous than symptomatic hypertension, especially in the fall and winter when blood vessels contract, asymptomatic hypertension patients are more likely to have strokes and other critical illnesses.
In fact, many people with asymptomatic hypertension are not completely asymptomatic, so it is important to pay more attention to changes in blood pressure in the following three situations: First, middle-aged and elderly people with hypertension in their families. Second, people who have recently experienced occasional dizziness and headache, although the symptoms are mild but no other medical history. Third, those who have fatigue, such as weakness of limbs, fatigue, and poor sleep quality, but cannot be explained by other causes.
For hypertensive disorders, early prevention and early treatment is the key. The prevention and treatment of hypertension is not complicated, but mainly involves changing poor lifestyles, insisting on the intake of low-salt and low-fat foods, quitting smoking and limiting alcohol, controlling body weight, insisting on proper exercise as well as controlling emotions and maintaining an optimistic state of mind. People who have a family history of hypertension should have regular checkups, and when they are diagnosed with hypertension, they must go to a regular hospital and take long-term antihypertensive drugs as prescribed by their doctors. Hypertension is a chronic disease, regardless of the symptoms, should be taken seriously and treated seriously, and its treatment must be persistent. If the symptoms related to hypertension are serious, you should undergo urine routine, electrocardiogram, fundus, echocardiogram, CT and other examinations to determine whether there is heart, brain, kidney damage and vascular sclerosis, so as to take early measures to prevent the disease