What Are the Complications of High Blood Pressure?

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• Skinner

  
  
  
  Persistent high blood pressure (hypertension) is one of the risk factors for strokes, heart attacks, heart failure and arterial aneurysm, and is a leading cause of chronic kidney failure. Even moderate elevation of arterial blood pressure leads to shortened life expectancy. Hypertension along with diabetes for instance, causes a very increased risk to develop nephropathies (kidney disease) and retinopathies (severe eye damage that can lead to blindness). It is highly recommended to keep blood pressure balanced under proper medical treatment, in order to avoid these severe complications.

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• Padgett

  
  
  
  While elevated blood pressure alone is not an illness, it often requires treatment due to its short and long-term effects on many organs. The risk is increased for: Cerebrovascular accident (CVAs or strokes), myocardial infarction (heart attack), hypertensive cardiomyopathy (heart failure due to chronically high blood pressure),hypertensive retinopathy - damage to the retina, hypertensive nephropathy- chronic renal failure due to chronically high blood pressure and hypertensive encephalopathy- confusion, headache and convulsions due to edema in brain that can lead to death. Therefore, it is considered very important to reduce blood pressure to normal levels with strict medical supervision.
  

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