What medication is suggested for elevated BP levels?
Patient: I am a white female age 56 and recently my blood pressure has been consistently high. Last week, at my doctor's it was 140/100 and it has gone up since. In the past few days it has been 158/110, 188/120, 165/114, 150/113/ 179/113 (10 minutes ago as I am sitting at the computer doing nothing strenous). Should I be concerned? My father had many heart attacks, the earliest one at 35 years of age. My mother had several TIAs before having a more serious stroke. Help? Doctor: Hello, I saw your question .Most of the values you mention come in the hypertensive range.Considering repeated persistent high values of blood pressure and your strong family anti hypertensive medication is certainly indicated.Heart ailments usually occurs due to variety of risk factors which include obesity diabetes high cholesterol levels, kidney disease and genetics. Therefore at age screening is necessary for all other factors.The anti hypertensive medication is determined by all such factors .The usual choice of an anti hypertensive in absence of all other factors would be a class of drugs known as angiotensin receptor blockers or diuretic. Hope you start it soon