BETA-BLOCKERS DRUGS – INFERENCE
Unfortunately, in surveys it has been found that:
- Half of the people with high blood pressure in a community have not been detected. They have hypertension and do not know it, because they have not had their blood pressure checked.
- Half of those people who are known to have high blood pressure are not taking any medication.
- Half of those people who are being treated are inadequately treated, namely, they are taking too small a dose or using an inappropriate drug.
If the level of hypertension is such that you need drugs and want to prevent the complications of high blood pressure you must receive and continue to take your treatment in the appropriate dose. Yet only half the known people who have a high blood pressure are taking medication. In an investigation in the U.S.A. it was found that even though the people with hypertension visited their doctor every three months, they still failed to take the prescribed drugs. When the men were asked why, they answered that they did not realize that they had to take the drugs permanently. When they felt better, they stopped!
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