Hello Hypertension Resistors!
Hypertension Resistant To Treatment blog is here to provide you with knowledge, training, resources, and support. You can leverage all of this and work with your doctor to get good blood pressure control. Electronic discount talking into September hadReady, let’s do this!
I am here for you every week to tell you what everybody ought to know about hypertension. I will also share with you questions and answers from the hypertension group, voicemail, or email that will help you.
You already know that when your blood pressure is too high it puts you at risk for serious problems. However, like most people you may be resistant to lifestyle modification and medication treatment.
Close to 50% of people with hypertension do not take their medication as prescribed and fail to lower their blood pressure.
If you don’t want to take blood pressure medication or want to minimize the amount of medication you are prescribed, you need to take particular actions to take care of yourself.
High blood pressure damages your blood vessels and organs (eyes, heart, kidneys, brain)causing unnecessary problems. I’m not trying to scare you but bindness, stroke, heart disease, and kidney disease are LIKELY to lead to disability or death.
The sooner you can get your blood pressure under control, the better off you will be to prevent or stop further damage.
Meet Your Host
Hello! I am Dr. Tonya. I am here to help you learn what everybody ought to know about hypertension so you can live a long healthy quality of life. Once you understand, track, and take specific actions you can live free from heart attack, stroke, kidney failure and cardiovascular damage and events!
Since 2011, I have helped hundreds of people understand, track, and take specific actions to get control of their blood pressure. Most of the people I have helped were diagnosed with hypertension and resistant to taking medication treatment. However, I have helped others who were never diagnosed with hypertension but who had elevated or severe blood pressure.
5 Basic Things Everybody Ought To Know About Hypertension
1) The terms hypertension and high blood pressure are many times used interchangeably. The very first thing you ought to know is your target goal of blood pressure. Your diagnosis, treatment, and control and everything else will be based on your blood pressure target goal. A target goal of less than 130/80 mm Hg is recommended by the most current hypertension guidelines published in 2017.
2) Monitoring and tracking your blood pressure at home is one of the most important things you must do to confirm if you have high blood pressure.
Omron case: This case is useful when you bring your monitor to your doctor’s office for validation. It will protect your monitor from damage.
3) Report severe blood pressures to your doctor and you never ignore severe blood pressure measurements
4) Your hypertension diagnosis, treatment, and control, and everything else is based on your ten-year cardiovascular risk assessment. You should calculate your score and know where you stand so you can make informed health decisions with your doctor’s approval. Go to the link below to calculate your risk and share it with your doctor.
http://tools.acc.org/ASCVD-Risk-Estimator-Plus/#!/calculate/estimate/
5) It may be safe to resist receiving prescription medication for your high blood pressure for some time if you work with your doctor and your blood pressure is not severe. However, you must reduce severe blood pressure as soon as possible to avoid poor cardiovascular outcomes. Hypertension prescription medication effectively reduces high blood pressure when taken routinely as prescribed. A 30-day pillbox and set alarms on your smartphone can help you remember to take your medication routinely.
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