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HYPERTENSION – TREATMENT
The principal reason for treating high blood pressure is to reduce the frequency with which these complications occur.
Neither the doctor nor the patient would argue about the need to reduce blood pressure once the person has suffered some complication, but the need for treatment in patients who have no symptoms is still a matter for debate.
Most doctors now agree that high levels of pressure (those with a diastolic above 110 mm of Hg) should be treated. Those with a diastolic pressure under 90 or 95 do not require treatment, even if the systolic pressure is raised. The big debate is about those with diastolic pressures between 95 and 110 mm of Hg.
Once we decide to treat blood pressure, we have embarked on a life-time process. The pressure should fall with treatment but always rises again once it is stopped.
Unfortunately, most drugs used in treating this condition have side-effects. These may be merely annoying or of considerable importance, particularly those which interfere with male sexual function, to a young man contemplating 30 or 40 years of treatment.
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