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High blood pressure is the most important risk factor for disease and death worldwide.
High blood pressure is not a disease in itself, but it must be treated to prevent the development of other diseases.
How concerned should the 800,000 Norwegians being treated for high blood pressure be?
Professional director of the Atle Fredheim Institute of Public Health is trying to clarify. But it is not easy, because new investigations are looming.
1. To what extent did high blood pressure treated by more than 800,000 increase the risk of covid-19?
Many of these are older, and because older people are more likely to be hit hard than others, many people with high blood pressure will be at risk. But this is probably mainly due to age, to a lesser extent to blood pressure.
2. To what extent are blood pressure and low age (under 65 years) less risky than high age and high blood pressure?
Based on what we know at the moment and there are many things we don’t know, advanced age is crucial for risk. The extent to which younger people are at higher risk if they have high blood pressure is uncertain. The studies done do not provide clear evidence that you are at higher risk if you have high blood pressure, but we cannot rule out that it may play a role anyway. We still find the most vulnerable among the elderly, no matter how one turns on and turns on the available results.
3. Many people ask if you are still at risk if you are medicated and have a regulated blood pressure? Does it reduce risk?
If high blood pressure is really a risk factor, it is not unreasonable to assume that it is an advantage if blood pressure is treated well. In any case, we know that for other diseases, such as strokes and heart attacks, the risk of getting sick decreases if blood pressure drops.
