High blood pressure for five or six years without medication is harmful to the body and may increase damage to multiple organs in the body, such as the heart, brain, retina, and kidneys.
Hypertension is the most important risk factor for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Blood pressure persistently residing at a high level may increase the burden on multiple organs throughout the body, and may eventually cause organ failure.
1. Heart: it may cause cardiac myocyte hypertrophy and interstitial fibrosis and hyperplasia of the heart, leading to left ventricular hypertrophy and hyperplasia, decreased coronary flow reserve, coronary atherosclerosis myocardial ischemia, and ultimately lead to heart failure.
2. Cerebrovascular: make cerebrovascular ischemia and deformation, the formation of microaneurysms, causing cerebral hemorrhage or aggravate intracranial atherosclerosis, platelet aggregation, leading to cerebral infarction.
3. Kidney: continuous elevation of blood pressure increases intraglomerular pressure, glomerular fibrosis, atrophy, renal artery atherosclerosis, leading to renal failure.
4. Retina: small retinal artery spasm occurs in the early stage, and the disease progresses, which can seriously lead to retinal detachment or blindness.
If the blood pressure continues to rise, it is recommended to go to the hospital as soon as possible, under the guidance of the doctor, dietary guidance or take medication for treatment, so as to avoid irreversible damage to the body.