High blood pressure treatment

High blood pressure: what you can do yourself

As the person affected, you can do a lot to ensure that the treatment is successful. It is crucial that you maintain a healthy lifestyle (the focus is on controlling your body weight and getting as much exercise as possible). In many cases, it is possible to lower high blood pressure without medication or at least delay the development of blood pressure values that require treatment. In addition, these measures can also have a positive effect on the dosage of antihypertensive drugs, i.e. blood pressure can be normalized even with lower doses. As part of the care / clarification in our special consultation, recommendations tailored to your risk profile will be explained and given to you.

Effective are dietary measures, exercise programs, stress control, control of nicotine and alcohol consumption. In principle, the recommendations must be individualized. If you are taking antihypertensive medication, you should take it as prescribed by us. Any problems or uncertainties regarding the use of these medications should be discussed with us immediately.

High blood pressure: treatment with medication

Lifestyle changes alone are not always enough to lower high blood pressure sufficiently. There are various medications from different classes of active ingredients (e.g. diuretics or so-called ACE inhibitors) to lower blood pressure. Which ones are used depends on your individual case and your overall risk profile. Each preparation has different effects, side effects and interactions. Not every medication is therefore equally suitable for every affected person. In many cases, we use not just one, but several medications as a combination therapy for high blood pressure.