Generally speaking, there are not many symptoms when suffering from hypertension, and even if there are, they are just headaches, dizziness, tinnitus, and other phenomena. However, these symptoms are easily overlooked, so hypertension is not easy to be detected. But if not actively treated, it can cause complications in important organs such as the heart, brain, and kidneys, posing a great threat to our health. Let's summarize several complications of hypertension so that people can better treat and prevent it.
1. Cardiac hypertrophy
Initially, hypertension can cause cardiac hypertrophy. Because the heart encounters increased resistance to blood flow, it will contract forcefully. Over time, the heart will become enlarged, leading to myocardial ischemia and eventually heart failure. In addition, hypertension can also cause arteriosclerosis, leading to coronary heart disease and even myocardial infarction.
2. Aortic Dissection
This is an extremely dangerous cardiovascular complication, namely aortic dissection (rupture within the arterial wall). This complication occurs when hypertension is not well treated, causing problems with the blood vessel walls. The rupture of the blood vessel wall can occur from the inner wall of the vessel, allowing blood to enter, or it can be a rupture within the wall, causing thickening of the blood vessel wall and ultimately making the aorta thicker.
This condition is very dangerous and can easily cause sudden death. Moreover, the treatment of aortic dissection is very difficult. During this period, the blood vessel wall of the aorta is fragile and not easy to operate on. The symptoms of aortic dissection are chest pain and profuse sweating. This pain usually starts in the lower back and back, and is easily misdiagnosed as heart disease.
3. Metabolic syndrome
Clinically, it is common to see patients with hypertension who also have abnormal blood lipids or diabetes, or people who have diabetes and then develop gout or coronary heart disease.
4. Malignant hypertension
While suffering from hypertension, there is often pain in the back of the head, accompanied by vomiting. However, in most cases, patients come for treatment due to other reasons such as colds, fatigue, or shoulder pain. Headaches and vomiting are easily overlooked. If the pain disappears after one or two days, most people no longer insist on examination and treatment. In the end, even if they have headaches, they think it is only due to fatigue, which will actually worsen the condition. When feeling pain in the back of the head accompanied by nausea and vomiting, one should suspect hypertension and seek medical diagnosis. Although the intensity of the headache may be light and can immediately disappear and be forgotten, if the blood pressure suddenly rises years later for some reason, forming malignant hypertension, it will be too late for treatment.
Hypertension itself is not a dangerous disease, but the complications formed as a result of hypertension as a trigger can sometimes take away a person's life. This is why people often say that the disease itself is not the most terrifying, but the complications are. From here, it can be seen that early detection of disease symptoms and timely prevention are very important.
