Hypertension can cause hypertensive nephropathy, hypertensive heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, hypertensive retinopathy and so on.
1. Hypertensive nephropathy: long-term high blood pressure, the blood pressure of the kidneys also increases, the glomerular capsule pressure increases, glomerular arteriosclerosis, which can make the kidney insufficiently perfused, ischemic necrosis, which leads to hypertensive nephropathy, and in severe cases, it can be developed into chronic renal failure.
2. Hypertensive heart disease: long-term high blood pressure, can make the body increase the release of catecholamines, stimulate cardiomyocyte hypertrophy and interstitial fibrosis, resulting in left ventricular hypertrophy, causing hypertensive heart disease. In addition, left ventricular hypertrophy can also cause an increase in cardiac oxygen consumption, coronary artery blood flow reserve decline, further causing coronary heart disease, heart failure and other cardiovascular diseases.
3. Cerebrovascular disease: such as lacunar cerebral infarction, transient ischemic attack. Long-term hypertension can cause atherosclerosis of the arteries in the brain and insufficient blood supply to the cerebrovascular system, resulting in lacunar cerebral infarction and transient ischemic attack. It can also lead to cerebral hemorrhage, which can manifest as dizziness, headache and even loss of consciousness.
4. Hypertensive retinopathy: small retinal arteries spasm in the early stage and sclerosis occurs with the progress of the disease. Rapid increase in blood pressure can cause retinal exudation and hemorrhage.
When the diagnosis of hypertension is confirmed, you should visit the hospital regularly, take antihypertensive drugs as instructed by the doctor, maintain the stability of blood pressure, and prevent the occurrence of the above diseases.