Classification of hypertension depending on the degree

Every year, cardiologists around the world hold special meetings to discuss the disease. So, in 2003, the classification of hypertension was specified depending on the degree:

1. An easy degree of disease. Arterial pressure is regulated in such indices 140-159 / 90-99 mm Hg.p.
2. Hypertension of the 2nd degree. Here the pressure fluctuates in the difference - 160-179 / 100-109 mm Hg.p.
3. Third, severe degree of hypertension. Human pressure may exceed the figure of 180/110 mm Hg. Art.

To date, the degree of hypertension can not be determined without some risk factors. The risk, in the language of experts, is the development of complications in the cardiovascular system, resulting from hypertension. Based on these very indicators, and the prognosis of the consequences of hypertension is carried out.

There are certain factors that can exacerbate the course of hypertension( hypertension ).These include:

• the age of the patient. In men, this age is 55 years and older, in women - from 65 years and older;
• smoking patient;
• total cholesterol - more than 6.5 mmol per liter;
• family heredity of diseases of cardiovascular systems;
• other, also important factors: diabetes, obesity, belonging to the ethnic and socioeconomic risk group, sedentary lifestyle and others.

Risk factors, in turn, are also divided into subspecies: correctable and uncorrectable. The first type includes those factors that can affect the cardiologist or the patient himself( diabetes, smoking, a large number of cholesterol in the blood).The second type includes those factors that are beyond the control of the patient - the race( for example, the Japanese - a group of low risk, and Americans on the contrary - increased), heredity, age.

The second degree of the disease indicates the development of complications in the cardiovascular system .In this case, the development of the disease for 10 years will be 15-20%.The principle of treatment of this stage is the same as in the first. The difference is only in the fact that the period of non-drug therapy is reduced to six months. This is done to establish the dynamics of hypertension. In the case of undesirable dynamics, while maintaining high blood pressure, the doctor can transfer the patient to medication.

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