Malignant Hypertension
Alternate Names : Malignant Hypertensive Arteriolar Nephrosclerosis
What can be done to prevent the disease?
Maintaining a healthy body weight, including physical activity in everyday
life, and eating a diet designed to
minimize heart disease can help avoid high blood pressure. However, even with
these lifestyle guidelines, many cases of high blood pressure cannot be
prevented. If there is a medical cause of high blood pressure, treatment of
that condition can help prevent hypertension.
What are the long-term effects of the disease?
There are many serious long-term effects of malignant hypertension, including:
damage to the brain, kidneys, and heart
blood vessel damage to the eye, with loss of vision
atherosclerosis, or narrowing of
the arteries
stroke
heart attack
chronic renal failure, a form
of
kidney failure that requires dialysis
to
filter body fluids
enlargement of the heart, which weakens the heart muscle and leads to congestive heart failure
irregular
heartbeats, or arrhythmias
What are the risks to others?
Malignant hypertension is not contagious and poses no risk to others.
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