If hypertension is not treated, it is the chief culprit of stroke, coronary heart disease, heart failure, chronic kidney disease and other complications or diseases, and it is also the main cause of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular accidents, but the treatment of hypertension must not be limited to taking medicine! When the examination results show that the severity of hypertension is higher than "mild" and the symptoms of hypertension have not been alleviated, drug treatment must be used to reduce blood pressure.
If it is only mild hypertension, it can usually be improved and prevented by adjusting diet and doing exercise. Therefore, whether hypertension should be taken for life depends mainly on whether it can be controlled and regulated. If it is well controlled, it can be treated without taking medicine. As most people know, hypertension is a lifelong disease, and once you get sick, you need to take medicine for life.
Because the formation of hypertension needs a long process, it is related to the gradual pathophysiological changes of multiple organs and systems, but this is only for the elderly. Hypertension in young adults is not persistently high like senile hypertension, but the blood pressure is unstable, mainly intermittent high. Through life intervention and correction, and under the guidance of doctors, the blood pressure can return to normal. You don't need to take drugs for a long time.