How your doctor treats your hypertension, or high blood pressure, really depends upon just how high your blood pressure is when your doctor discovers that it is too high. Here are the readings that doctors consider when they begin to treat you for hypertension:
* Normal blood pressure: less than 120/80
* Prehypertension: 120-139/80-89
* Hypertension: greater than 140/90
* Stage 1 Hypertension:140-159/90-99
* Stage 2 Hypertension: 160 or greater/100 or higher
For a reading in the prehypertension range, your doctor will likely only recommend some lifestyle changes. He or she will tell you to quit smoking, lose weight, and get more exercise. If the doctor’s advice is taken and these lifestyle changes are implemented, it will probably return to normal within a few weeks.
For a reading in the hypertension range, your doctor will also recommend the above-listed lifestyle changes. He or she will also probably prescribe one of the many diuretic drugs, and if one doesn’t work, he or she will prescribe a different one.
If the diuretic drugs and the lifestyle changes do not lower your blood pressure, or if your reading is in the Stage 1 or Stage 2 range, you doctor will prescribe blood-pressure-lowering medications. He or she will monitor the levels of these drugs that are in your system very closely.
There are many kinds of drugs that your doctor can use to help lower your blood pressure. Different drug types work in different ways. Some of the drugs that your doctor might prescribe to lower it other than diuretics are:
* Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors
* Angiotensin || receptor blockers (ARBs)
* Beta-blockers
* Calcium channel blockers
If your doctor does prescribe blood-pressure-lowering medications for you, it is extremely important that you take the medications in the exact doses that are prescribed. It is also important that you do not stop taking the medication without your doctor’s approval and guidance.
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