What are the principles of hypertension treatment?

  1.Control the blood pressure to an appropriate level, eliminate all the discomfort caused by hypertension, and ensure the quality of life of patients.  2.Minimize the damage of hypertension to the heart, brain, kidney and other important organs, and strive to gradually reverse the damage already formed.  3.Along with antihypertensive treatment, other risk factors for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular complications, such as left ventricular hypertrophy, hyperlipidemia, diabetes mellitus, hyperinsulinemia, insulin resistance and obesity, should be prevented and treated.  4.The program should be as easy as possible and can be adhered to for a long time.  5, adhere to individualization, for each patient’s specific circumstances to make the program.  6.Advocate early treatment with disease and early prevention without disease, and emphasize close cooperation between patients, hospitals and families.  7, low dose to start, if the blood pressure fails to achieve the goal of control, should increase the dose of the drug according to the dosing situation.  8, if the first drug is ineffective, a reasonable combination of drugs should be administered, usually by adding a small dose of the second antihypertensive drug, rather than increasing the dose of the first drug. The effective five types of combination drug combinations are: diuretics + beta-blockers; diuretics + ACE inhibitors (or angiotensin II receptor antagonists); calcium antagonists + beta-blockers; calcium antagonists + ACE inhibitors; alpha-blockers + beta-blockers.  9. If the first drug is very ineffective or not tolerated, you can change to another type of antihypertensive drug instead of increasing the dose of the first drug or adding a second drug.