In your opinion, what is the criteria of prescribing hypertensive medicine?!
Question:
In your opinion, what is the criteria of prescribing hypertensive medicine?
if patient's BP is 140/90 and symptom free.
Answers:
In my opinion take his family h/o hypertension, risk factors are important before going directly for medication.
If the risk factors are positive than I will advise him to reduce weight, diet, salt , smoking etc and re examine him again after one month, meanwhile I will instruct him to monitor BP daily . If BP is 120/80 or 110/70 is attained, he can go medicine free with the present regimen.
Vice versa he can be placed on minor dose of Hypertensive medicine.