COMPLICATIONS OF ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION

Historically, diastolic BP has been given more importance as a predictor of cerebrovascular and cardiac complications, which has affected the organization of major studies on the treatment of hypertension. We also fell under this influence at one time, concentrating on the predominant correction of diastolic blood pressure, assuming that its value indirectly determines the main area of interest of urologists - peripheral resistance and tissue perfusion, and systolic pressure is mainly an indicator of heart function, which itself will “sort out” with what frequency to it to work. Subsequently, it turned out that medical correction of systolic blood pressure is even more difficult to achieve than diastolic blood pressure, and the latter is corrected unsatisfactorily.