High blood pressure in young people

It is often thought that high blood pressure occurs only in older people. However, high blood pressure also occurs in young people.

What age is the disease called young?

(Photo: TTO) According to Dr. - Dr. Truong Quang Binh, Head of Cardiology (Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy), when people are sick under the age of 35 years old (people previously thought under 40 years old) It's called hypertension in young people.

About 30% of high blood pressure in young people can find the cause.

Some causes of high blood pressure in young people are often: vascular disease in the kidneys (renal artery stenosis), endocrine organ disease (adrenal tumors, adrenal cortex). kidney tissue (chronic glomerulonephritis; chronic kidney failure .) and other vascular diseases such as aortic stenosis . While smoking, obesity, stress . is just The risk factors are not the cause of high blood pressure in young people. But once you have the disease and are associated with these risk factors, it will make the disease worse.

How dangerous is it?

Dr. Truong Quang Binh said that it was dangerous to have high blood pressure, but the level of danger depends on the case. The most dangerous is the disease that causes complications, damage the target organ of the body such as heart damage (causing myocardial hypertrophy, heart failure, myocardial anemia .), kidney damage (do proteinuria, kidney failure, brain damage (clogging cerebral blood vessels, cerebral hemorrhage .). Heart and brain complications are the two most common complications.

Another danger is that, like other high blood pressure cases, there are cases of high blood pressure in young people who do not have symptoms, causing many people to not know they are sick. At some point, the disease was severe, the patient had a stroke, heart failure, or sudden death.

Treatment is complicated?

The treatment of high blood pressure in young people, according to doctors, the most important thing is to find the cause of the disease, to cure the root. For example, if the cause is due to renal artery stenosis, then stent surgery . If the cause is not known, the treatment is only to use antihypertensive drugs to avoid complications, harm the organs. target mentioned above.

However, the most important is the early detection of the disease, in which the simplest, least expensive method is to measure blood pressure (even without symptoms).

Some of the following suggestive symptoms need attention: headache (especially pain in the occipital region in the morning); dizziness, there is a phenomenon of flying flies in front of them; being hard to say temporarily; nocturnal, naturally see numbness, weakness, limbs, face or redness .

Those who have symptoms suggested should go to a specialist to check, as well as to check blood pressure more often to detect and cure in time. With cases of disease but absolutely no symptoms suggested, it should be considered more carefully to limit complications.