Tag: Refractory Hypertension

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Several drugs combined to lower blood pressure

There are five types of antihypertensive drugs commonly used by doctors: calcium antagonists (such as nifedipine), ACEI (such as enalapril), ARB (such as telmisartan), diuretics (such as hydrochlorothiazide) and receptor blockers (such as metoprolol). These five types of drugs are basically doctors’ main weapons against hypertension. These five drugs are not good or bad, only suitable or inappropriate. That kind of drug can not only effectively reduce blood pressure, but also protect organs such as heart, brain, lung and kidney, which is the appropriate drug. Generally speaking, high-salt diet, elderly patients and patients with simple systolic hypertension have better antihypertensive response to calcium antagonists and thiazide diuretics. Middle-aged and young patients have better response to ACEI or ARB and receptor Read More …

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How does blood pressure always drop down?

Many friends are complaining, my blood pressure always can’t drop down how to do? First of all, it should be understood that after taking medicine for 3 or 4 days, blood pressure did not drop significantly, which is a normal phenomenon and is not called [poor antihypertensive effect]. Lowering blood pressure is not as fast as possible. When doctors start treatment, they usually expect blood pressure to drop to the normal range within weeks to months. Therefore, don’t think that if the blood pressure does not improve significantly after using the medicine for a few days, it is inappropriate to change the medicine, which is not conducive to blood pressure control. Of course, there are also some patients who suffer Read More …

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Blood pressure can’t drop all the time, so comprehensive treatment is needed.

There are often complaints from hypertension patients: my blood pressure cannot be lowered. I have changed several kinds of drugs and sometimes I have taken several kinds of drugs. My blood pressure just cannot be lowered. What’s going on? In fact, this kind of situation is very common. Clinically, more than half of hypertension patients cannot reach the blood pressure standard. For patients whose blood pressure does not reach the standard, improvement can be made from the following aspects. Adjust medication The study found that 59% of these patients with substandard blood pressure took only one antihypertensive drug and 41% took two drugs. For these patients, adjusting or adding antihypertensive drugs can also help lower blood pressure. Standardize medication Many Read More …