(UPI) — As many as 15 percent of all patients with hypertension fail to respond to drug treatment, but German researchers say new options are available.
Felix Mahfoud of the Faculty of Medicine Saarland University and colleagues said an interdisciplinary strategy is necessary for the successful treatment of resistant arterial hypertension.
“Drug treatment must be tailored to the individual patient and reversible or secondary causes of hypertension must be systematically sought and treated,” the researchers said in the study. “The important non-pharmacological conservative treatment measures include optimization of weight, a low-salt diet, physical exercise, and abstinence from alcohol.”
Minimally invasive renal denervation and baroreceptor stimulation are two alternative treatment options for selected patients with resistant arterial hypertension, the researchers said.
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This is very true. I have realised how bad salted diets are and how fast my bp can rise in response to salt intake. What I have faile to find out is how do you tel if your weight is the right weight to be, vs your height etc.
of course it is true…….but how do you get a doctor to listen to you.
i was dx’d with SYSTEMIC hypertension four years ago and despite telling my new doctor they want to raise raise and raise meds and do not want to look at anything like my kidneys, heart or anything.