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Hypertension or high
blood pressure results from more work of the heart forcing the blood
into arteries and excessive pressure on the walls of the blood
vessels by the circulating blood. The malady may lead to other
serious complications like- heart attack, diabetes complication,
renal kidney failure, eye damage etc.
Though hypertension is often associated
with people having more than 55 years of age, yet younger people too
become victim of it at times. To reduce the intensity of hypertension
and ensure a longer life people follow 'medication hypertension'
program that includes prescribed medicines by a doctor and some
changes in lifestyle.
Hypertension is a very critical disease
and some times single medication doesn't work. Then comes the
requirement of combining two or more medicines or increasing the
dosage of the existing treatment.
Doctors often
prescribe medication hypertension program since the medicines act
effectively in reducing the pressure levels and at the same time
reduce the possibilities of any sort of complications associated with
high blood pressure or hypertension.
Basically the medicines of hypertension
are called antihypersensitives and they are classified under various
headings. The main classes of medication hypertension prescribed
include:
1) angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE)
inhibitors
2) diuretics
3) calcium channel blockers
4) beta blockers
5) alpha blockers
6) angiotensin II receptor blockers
All these medications work in specific
manner to reduce the hypertension and some times they are used in
combination. The combination is required because the blood pressure
may not respond to a single medicine and the body has a tendency to
overcome the application of one medicine and hence two or three
combined gives no chance at all.
Taking into consideration that people
find it difficult to swallow down two three pills or tablets
together, combined formula products have been introduced. Now one can
find a wide range of medicines that carry the compounds of two or
more classes of hypertension medicines. Some of the commonly
prescribed combined medications include hydrochlorothiazide and one
of the following ACE inhibitors:
a) lisinopril
b) enalapril
c) cilazapril
d) quinapril
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