High blood pressure is of course very good if you can control it down without medication and through life conditioning. However, in most cases, friends with primary hypertension, if through life conditioning, can not effectively control blood pressure up to the standard, the medication should still be used. The fundamental goal of taking medication for hypertension is to control blood pressure smoothly and reduce the cardiovascular health risks and other target organ damage associated with hypertension.

Only one condition of hypertension can be treated without medication

Usually, for patients with grade 1 hypertension, i.e., hypertension in which the systolic blood pressure does not exceed 159 and the diastolic blood pressure does not exceed 99, if examined, there is no cardiovascular disease, no chronic kidney disease, no hypertension-mediated damage to target organs, and a combination of other cardiovascular disease risk factors (e.g., high blood pressure, diabetes mellitus, obesity, smoking, age, family history), there is no cardiovascular disease, no chronic kidney disease, and no target organ damage. Smoking, age, family history) to comprehensively assess, and also does not belong to the cardiovascular disease high-risk situation, such a case, it is possible to consider not to take the drug first.

Not taking medication does not mean that blood pressure does not need to be controlled. The prerequisite for not taking medication is to be able to exercise strict self-discipline, make effective improvements in your life to address your bad habits that affect your blood pressure, and adhere to a healthy lifestyle to improve and regulate your blood pressure. Hypertension lifestyle intervention we have talked about a lot, simply put, there are no more than a few aspects, low-salt diet, reasonable dietary structure, adhere to and strengthen the exercise, weight control, quit smoking and alcohol, exposure to anxiety and stress, maintain psychological balance, maintain a good work and rest, to avoid staying up all night. These aspects are done, for the primary hypertension patients, often can have a better blood pressure regulation, many friends, through a variety of aspects of life regulation, blood pressure down to below the target value, is also entirely possible.

High blood pressure life regulation, there is another suggestion for everyone, that is, as early as possible, if you can in the blood pressure appeared normal blood pressure high value of the time, to start the life of the intervention, or in the meantime on the ability to change some bad habits, prevention is better than cure, can better prevention of high blood pressure, delay and reduce the incidence of high blood pressure.

These cases should be considered for medication to control blood pressure

Patients with hypertension, in most cases, need medication to control it. According to the recommendations of various hypertension guidelines, it is recommended that hypertensive patients with the following conditions should initiate medication to control their blood pressure while paying attention to life-conditioning interventions -

1. patients with grade 1 hypertension, cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, or high risk of comprehensive cardiovascular disease, it is recommended that the life conditioning intervention should be accompanied by the addition of medication to control blood pressure, either a single drug or a combination of small doses, to control the blood pressure to 140/90 or below as a standard, and in some cases, for middle-aged and elderly people under the age of 65 years old, the goal of controlling the blood pressure can be further adjusted downward to 130/80 or below, if physically able. down to 130/80 or less.