Hypertension symptoms

In most patients, hypertension does not cause symptoms, although some symptoms inadvertently occur together and trust associated with high blood pressure (when in fact it is not). Symptoms referred to are headache, bleeding from the nose, dizziness, facial redness and fatigue, which could have occurred either in patients with hypertension, as well as to a person with normal blood pressure.

If hypertension is severe or chronic and untreated, can develop the following symptoms:

* Headache
* Fatigue
* Nausea
* Vomiting
* Shortness of breath
* Nervous
* Blurred vision that occurs because of damage to the brain, eyes, heart and kidney.

Sometimes patients with severe hypertension has decreased consciousness and even coma because of brain swelling. This is called encephalopathy hipertensif, which requires immediate treatment.