What Blood Pressure Risk Group Are You In?
Treating high blood pressure is difficult because one might have an issue that someone else might not have. BP patients are different from each other in many ways. So sometimes it is best to categorize them. And this is what Doctors have done.
They take into consideration the level of blood pressure, but also risk factors, damage to organs and damage to vessels.
There are 3 risk groups that you could belong to:
Risk Group A.
Stage 1 or 2 hypertension, or pre-hypertension. They do not have evidence of damage to organs or any other risk factor.
"A" patients tend to do well and can lower their blood pressure with lifestyle changes... but you have about 3-6 months to do this. A limit is needed because if no blood pressure change is found that high BP could be damaging to the individual.
Risk Group B.
Hypertensive patients who do have high BP. There is no evidence of organ damage... but do actually have a major risk factor that does not include Diabetes. This is where the majority of high blood pressure patients fall into.
If there are many risk factors then medication is started. Lifestyle changes are advised.
Risk Group C.
These patients have Diabetes and there is evidence of organ damage. These patients can have normal BP or high BP but they also have poor kidneys, angina, stroke, artery damage, eye damage and heart failure.
Medication is swift to be prescribed and lifestyle changes are strongly advised and encouraged.
Some of the major risk factors are:
Cigarette smoking, reduced "desirable" cholesterol, increase in "non-desirable" cholesterol, Diabetes, 60+ years of age, male, post menopausal woman and a history in the family of early heart disease.
Obviously careful management of all risk Groups is a wise procedure and making sure that risk factors are identified and paused if possible.
It is my view that patient education is at the center of all these Risk Groups. If the patient possibly realized what was going to happen and the risk factors that was going to accelerate them there, then I would assume that they would try to stop or at least try their best to stop the risk factors.
But one oversight is plainly obvious.
It is not until group B and definitely Group C that lifestyle changes are urged. In Group A it has been found that lifestyle changes really help... but it should be strongly advised. Prevention has been found time and time again to be the best medicine for the majority of preventable illnesses.
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