Hypertension, background

The arterial hypertonus is of great importance for the health of the complete population. It represents an important risk factor for illnesses of the complete vascular system in which illnesses of the hug and brain providing vessels represent life-threatening subsequent illnesses primarily. A blood pressure increased about for some time is among others responsible for the coronary heart condition and the chronic cardiac insufficiency as well as for the emergence of a chronic renal failure and peripheral circulatory disorders. Illnesses of the heart circulation system take the greatest share in deaths in Germany: per annum more than 400,000 people die to diseases from this group, about 43% of all men and above 50% of all women.

A hypertonus can by little charging and almost everywhere available methods are stated in the practice unlike many other risk factors and illnesses. Furthermore the rise of the blood pressure has to be lowered by appropriate non-medicinal as well as medicinal measures generally sufficiently. The dreaded results and complications of the arterial hypertension can be reduced by the blood pressure lowering measures effectively. The adequate management, incl. diagnostics and therapy of the high blood pressure, is therefore an important challenge to the avoidance of serious vessel complications.

But despite very favorable prerequisites with regard to diagnosis and therapy, till now, patients have back the supply for the hypertension left far in the population behind the possibilities and expectations. Studies have shown that the occurrence frequency of the high blood pressure hasn't been reduced in the population since the middle of the eighties. The portion with blood pressure values in the normal area of (< 130/85 mmHg) was lessly than 40%, with women less 60% (age area of 25 to 74 years) at men. Almost every second is hypertonic in the population as of the 50th year of life.


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