2024-04-30 12:08:00
Every month in your Pleine Vie magazine, Doctor Brigitte Blond answers readers’ questions. Here she answers a question posed by Suzanne R. from Menton (Alpes-Maritimes).
When we discover you high blood pressure (confirmed if your blood pressure is high at home too), we advise you to eat less salt, to move more and, to achieve 140/90 certainty with regard to vascular risk, to take two molecules
different from the beginning, usually in a single tablet.
High blood pressure: how to treat yourself when you have hypertension?
Take it step by step
Hypertensive patients are rarely “controlled” with just one drug: 60% of patients are controlled with two and three are needed for all to be controlled. The antihypertensive chosen depends on the condition of the heart and others vascular risk factors. In old age (after 85 years), we progress in stages, molecule by molecule, without increasing the dose of one until we have introduced the other.
How to contact Dr Blond?
Any advice or clarification? Write to me! Since your e-mail is abundant, it is impossible to answer all of them, especially since each case is special and complex, which sometimes requires me to seek the advice of a specialist. Consulting your GP is an irreplaceable first step.
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Article published in Pleine Vie magazine N°0455 of 1 April 2024
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