High blood pressure in young people and the things you should know

People often think that the evidence of hypertension only occurs in older people. However, high blood pressure also happen to young people.

Disease called age children?

According to Dr - Dr. Truong Quang Binh, Head of Cardiology (BV City University of Medicine and Pharmacy), while patients under the age of 35 years (previously it was conceived under 40 years old), it is called high blood pressure young people.

Approximately 30% of cases of hypertension in young adults can find the cause.
Some causes of high blood pressure in young people frequent, such as vascular disease in kidney (renal artery stenosis), diseases of the endocrine organs (adrenal cysts, incubated adrenal cortex) pathological need kidney tissue (chronic glomerulonephritis, chronic renal failure ...) and some other vascular diseases such as aortic stenosis waist ...
As for smoking, obesity, stress ... just a risk factor rather than the cause of hypertension in young adults. But once the disease and are accompanied by the risk factors above, will make more serious disease.

Dangerous to what extent?

Dr. Truong Quang Binh said, was that high blood pressure is dangerous, however dangerous levels depending on the circumstances. The most dangerous is the disease caused complications, hurt on the organ of the body, such as heart damage (causing hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, heart failure, ischemic cardiomyopathy ...), kidney damage (as proteinuria , renal failure), brain damage (clog capillaries, brain hemorrhage ...). Complications in heart and brain are the most common complications.
A more dangerous, it is like the case of hypertension, there are cases of hypertension in young people do not have symptoms, which many people do not know they are infected. At some point, the disease was severe, patients with brain stroke, heart failure, or sudden death.

Treatment with complexity?

Treatment of hypertension in young adults, according to the doctor is important to find the cause of the disease, to treat the root. For example, if the cause is due to renal artery stenosis, the surgical stent ... If you can not find the cause, the treatment is only used antihypertensive drugs in order to avoid complications, damage to organs above.
However, the most important is early detection, in which the simple method, the least expensive is blood pressure (even without symptoms).
Some symptoms suggestive following concern: headache (especially in the occipital headache in the morning); dizziness, phenomenon fly front; be difficult to say the least; nocturia, natural numbness, weakness, limb, or red face kindled ...
Those with symptoms should suggest on to specialist to check, as well as blood pressure checked more often to detect and cure time. With these cases, but absolutely no symptoms suggestive of what they need to pay closer attention to minimize the complications.