Hypertensive patients need to take multiple drugs is very normal.

In his 67 years old this year, is an old hypertensive patients, recently did not feel very well, eat depressor blood pressure still does not fall, went to Zhongda Hospital Affiliated to Southeast University specialist clinic. The teacher Li chief physician according to his situation, and gave him another kind of blood pressure medicine, let him eat two kinds at the same time medicine. Lee felt very confused, is a doctor to prescribe? Are antihypertensive drugs, why eat a?

Ren Li-qun director said, many hypertensive patients will have such a doubt, this is actually not the doctor to open more medicine, but in order to better treatment, is a " combination " of the concept. This is in the 2010 edition of the " guidelines for prevention and treatment of hypertension in China " put forward, but also the prevention and treatment of hypertension guidelines recommend, and clinically proven effective.

In fact, the same is hypertension, patients with each individual are not all the same, but different antihypertensive agents have different effects. Using single drug therapy for patients, although simple, but often failed to achieve the good effect of reducing blood pressure, especially for the blood pressure in 160/100mmHg or in danger or above the level of patients, from the beginning of using small doses of two drugs in combination therapy, or fixed compound preparation method, this method can increase the antihypertensive effect and no increase in adverse reaction.

In addition, needs to pay attention, hypertension is a cardiovascular syndrome " ". Hypertension is often accompanied by many other diseases, such as coronary heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease. So it should be based on the overall risk of cardiovascular, multiple cardiovascular risk factors of comprehensive intervention. That is to say, in hypertensive patients not only to take multiple antihypertensive agents, but may also need to take control of blood glucose, blood lipid and other drugs, the drugs will continue to increase. At this point, the doctor to patient condition assessment, and to develop personalized treatment regimens, optimization combination.

Therefore, patients with hypertension need to take multiple drugs is very normal, patients do not because of troublesome to stop one or several drugs, or drugs should follow the doctors advice. Hypertension can be used such as classification of small box and deposited drug, lest the wrong clothes or missed dose, the patient's family should also remind patients to take medicine in time