The Dangers of Discontinuing Hypertension Treatment Revealed

According to a recent study, putting an end to your hypertension therapy may have a significant influence on cardiac problems and death.

People over the age of 40 in China, Indonesia, Mexico, and South Africa were used in a study by Germany’s Technical University.

They concluded that most people with hypertension between a 5–9-year period who received treatment and had stable blood pressure, later experienced unstable blood pressure readings, with a large quantity of patients deciding to stop taking their medication.

Professor Justine Davies commented that “two-thirds of people with hypertension live in low- and middle-income countries and these countries in particular face considerable population ageing, which is likely to generate a surge in people requiring hypertension care.”

Nikkil Sudharsanen from the Technical University of Munich said: “We found that diagnosis and treatment initiation are major bottlenecks to achieving blood pressure control. Nonetheless, treatment discontinuation and loss of blood pressure control are equally problematic and reveal that we can’t expect long-term hypertension control from interventions that seek to improve diagnosis and treatment initiation without efforts to also keep people in care and their blood pressure controlled over time.”