Question: can a person with a high blood pressure maintain a low or average permanent blood pressure for the rest of their lives?

Keith Siew answered on 17 Jun 2013:

Yes… someone with chronic high blood pressure (hypertension) can take several different kinds of drugs to lower their blood pressure throughout there lives… for example…

You can take a class of drugs called diuretics which prevent the kidney from reabsorbing salt… which in turn causes you to lose water and reduces the volume of blood circulating lowering blood pressure…

You could take a drugs like ACE inhibitors or nitric oxide releasing drugs also that prevent the blood vessels from constricting or ones that actually cause them to actively relax… There are also drugs that will slow your heart rate such as beta blockers or calcium channel blockers…

Most recently there have been new treatments discovered like cutting the nerves going to the kidneys that seem to also reduce blood pressure… or in some cases such as Conn’s syndrome the cause of the high blood pressure could be a small tumour in the adrenal gland causing excessive production of a hormone called aldosterone which then causes high blood pressure… but once this is surgically removed the blood pressure goes back to normal.