What is Hypertension?
Hypertension can lead to a heart attack, stroke, or heart failure. Determining the correct diagnosis is essential to getting the correct care. Any heart specialist can treat your symptoms, but only an expert doctor can pinpoint the cause of your condition and take steps to treat it at its source.
Normal blood pressure: generally less than 140/90 mmHg (i.e. systolic blood pressure less than 140 and diastolic blood pressure less than 90 mmHg).
High blood pressure: 140/90 mmHg or higher.
Knowing Your Blood Pressure Numbers
The average reading that indicates normal blood pressure is 120/80 or lower. You’re considered to have high blood pressure if your systolic blood pressure is 130 or higher and your diastolic pressure is higher than 80 and stays that high over time. Infrequent spikes may be nothing to worry about, but persistent high readings can lead to serious consequences, including a heart attack or stroke.
Why Your Blood Pressure Should Be Less Than 130/80?
Some people experience high blood pressure readings only at the doctor’s office. This is known as white-coat hypertension. If you fall into this category, you get so nervous going to the doctor’s that your blood pressure spikes. Your specialist may recommend that you wear an ambulatory blood pressure monitor temporarily or check your blood pressure at home. The monitor records your blood pressure as you move around doing normal daily activities. It allows your New York cardiologist to get a more accurate reading of your blood pressure.
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What Are The Symptoms of High Blood Pressure?
Even if your blood pressure levels are dangerously high, it still possible that you may have zero signs or symptoms. Some people with hypertension will notice they have nosebleeds, are short of breath, or may develop headaches. However, these symptoms aren’t specific enough to indicate high blood pressure and often do not occur until hypertension has reached dangerously high levels or is even life-threatening.
Hypertensive Emergency Treatment
A hypertensive emergency is a dangerously high blood pressure with new or progressive damage to target organs that requires admission to an intensive care unit.
Rapid-acting medications such as clevidipine, nitroprusside, nicardipine, labetalol, esmolol, and hydralazine will be used by your doctor to prevent or limit target organ damage and improve clinical outcomes. These are typically delivered by an intravenous (IV) line placed into a vein.
Hypertensive emergency treatment aims at reducing mean arterial blood pressure by no more than 25% within minutes to an hour and then stabilizing it at 160/100-110 mm Hg within the next 2 to 6 hours. A follow-up appointment with your healthcare provider within a week of the episode is necessary.
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