Symptoms

Symptoms of blood pressure

This disease can silently progress to ultimately develop into a stroke or a heart attack. Hence it is often referred to as the “Silent Killer” Hypertension can in fact be present for years and years without any sign if there are no symptoms and one does not undergo blood pressure screening periodically.
About 1% of patients suffering from high blood pressure are diagnosed with malignant hypertension on their first visit to the physician.
These individuals sometimes have a diastolic blood presure (minimum pressure) over 140m Hg.
Individuals affected with such high blood presure may often have nausea, severe headache, visual impairment, kidney failure and dizziness.
A medical emergency like malignant hypertension requires urgent medical treatment to prevent stroke.