In the impression of many people, as long as the body appears disease, there will definitely be corresponding symptoms!
But in fact, this idea does not work clinically, because there are many chronic diseases in the early stages of the disease, and the patient's body does not have typical symptoms, or even does not have any abnormalities.
For example, the high incidence of hypertensive diseases in the mainland has reached about 270 million in China, but the awareness rate of adult hypertension patients over the age of 18 is only 46.9%.
That said, more than half of high blood pressures go undiagnosed.
The reason for this is because hypertension has no symptoms in the early stage of the disease, or the patient only occasionally has atypical symptoms such as dizziness and headache, and many people do not know that they have become ill and do not have the awareness of preventing and treating hypertension.
However, the fact that high blood pressure has no symptoms does not mean that it is not harmful. Studies have shown that patients with mild hypertension shorten their life expectancy.
This is the case because high blood pressure seems to be characterized by an increase in blood pressure, but there are multiple complications behind it.
If hypertension is not effectively controlled, the following complications will gradually find patients
1. Hypertensive nephropathy: This condition occurs in patients over 40-50 years old and suffering from hypertension for more than 5-10 years.
Because in the process of long-term development of hypertension, it will cause damage to the patient's arterial tissue and cause benign arteriolar nephrosclerosis, which is also known clinically as hypertensive renal arteriolesclerosis;
After that, the patient's glomeruli are gradually damaged, and symptoms such as nocturia and proteinuria are allowed to develop, and hematuria, renal failure, and even uremia will occur;
2. Heart disease: continuously elevated blood pressure will lead to excessive pressure on arterial vessels, and hinder the normal pumping of blood by the heart, and the heart will be in a high-load workload for a long time, followed by problems such as myocardial hypertrophy and increased stiffness, which will eventually lead to obstruction of blood return from the pulmonary veins of the heart, and then form lung congestion.
As the patient's condition progresses, myocardial hypertrophy requires more oxygen supply, and the patient receives the effects of a relatively inadequate blood supply, the patient will eventually develop heart failure.
Relevant data research surveys show that nearly 70% of the clinical heart failure is directly related to hypertensive diseases.
And due to long-term poor control of hypertension, the structural and functional changes of the heart are also known in the clinic as hypertensive heart disease;
3, hemorrhagic stroke: this disease is commonly known as cerebral hemorrhage, it refers to non-traumatic cerebral parenchymal blood vessel rupture and bleeding, which occupies about 20 to 30% of all stroke patients, although the incidence rate is not as good as cerebral infarction, but its mortality rate is amazingly high, and the acute phase case fatality rate can reach about 30 to 40%.
Relevant studies have pointed out that high blood pressure is the main factor that promotes cerebral hemorrhage. Because of the long-term increase in blood pressure, it is often combined with atherosclerosis, and it is easy to have problems such as microaneurysms and hemangiomas, and once the aneurysm or hemangioma ruptures, it will cause a sudden burst of cerebral hemorrhage.
In addition to the above three diseases, coronary heart disease, cerebral infarction and other lesions are closely related to hypertension. Therefore, in daily life, we must not underestimate the increase in blood pressure.
Once hypertension is diagnosed, it is necessary to actively cooperate with the doctor to start drug treatment and make adjustments through diet and life. Only by stabilizing blood pressure control can the likelihood of future complications be reduced.