What are the effects of taking antihypertensive drugs for a long time

Hypertension is a long-term disease problem. After developing hypertension, you should be prepared for long-term treatment. For hypertension, taking antihypertensive drugs is a necessary treatment method, and many people will choose antihypertensive drugs that are suitable for their physical conditions. In this way, many people will often worry about the side effects of taking antihypertensive drugs for a long time. What are the effects of taking antihypertensive drugs for a long time?

Taking antihypertensive drugs is a direct way to quickly suppress the continued increase in blood pressure. Therefore, taking antihypertensive drugs can dilate our blood vessels and accelerate blood circulation, thereby alleviating the stability of blood pressure. And everyone knows that any food and medicine we eat must be detoxified and excreted through the liver and kidneys. The same is true for antihypertensive drugs. Long-term use of antihypertensive drugs will cause excessive burden on the patient's liver and kidneys and damage the function of the liver and kidneys. These side effects are very clear.

However, compared with these side effects, the hazards and consequences of not taking antihypertensive drugs are more serious. Therefore, patients with hypertension should not believe in some alarmist misunderstandings and stop taking drugs just because they think long-term use of drugs will cause harm to the body. If patients with hypertension do not take medication, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases will definitely occur; it is just a matter of time. The hazards and consequences of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases are relatively serious. In mild cases, they can cause hemiplegia and aphasia in patients, and in severe cases, they can cause patients to lose their lives, such as cerebral hemorrhage and myocardial infarction. The hazards and consequences brought by these diseases are more serious than the side effects of long-term medication.

In general, the harm of taking antihypertensive drugs for a long time is that it will cause certain damage to our liver and kidneys. Because the liver and kidneys are the largest detoxification organs in the human body, all the drugs taken must be metabolized through these two organs. Therefore, taking antihypertensive drugs for a long time will bring a relatively large burden on these two kidneys. However, if you do not take antihypertensive drugs, the consequences will be more serious. Therefore, patients with hypertension must treat the problem of drug side effects scientifically and must not stop taking drugs blindly.