Elderly people’s blood pressure around 170/120mmHg can be improved by adjusting the medication, checking for other diseases and then treating the cause.
1. Adjustment of medication: Elderly people’s blood pressure around 170/120mmHg has been unable to come down may be due to the patient’s insensitivity to the use of drugs or drug dosage is not enough. You can first try to increase the dose of the drug under the guidance of the doctor, if it does not work, you can consider changing a drug, if the effect is still not good, you can consider a combination of drugs.
2. Check for other diseases and then treat the cause: if no matter how to adjust the medication still does not work, you can improve other tests, such as improving the renal examination, except kidney disease, improve the renal blood vessels and adrenal gland related examination to clarify whether there are other secondary causes of hypertension and active treatment.
Elderly people’s blood pressure 170/120mmHg or so has been unable to come down the solution of other measures, it is recommended that the physical discomfort in a timely manner to consult a doctor to clarify the cause of the cause of the treatment of the cause.