Neurological Complications of Hypertension: A Review Article

Abstract

Hypertension (HTN) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality because of its complication like neuronal disease, coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease and renal disease. It is also known for the second most common cause of death after diabetes in adults worldwide. This study is mainly focus on neurological complications due to HTN. The reason is to improve patient’s quality of life and at the same time to increase their life span by knowing the causes and prevention methods. Epidemiology of HTN also need to be taken into concern, as it is important to reduce HTN not only in Malaysian, also people throughout the world. Neurological complication like stroke has shown an encouraging improvement in patient those who are under medications such as antihypertensive drug, physiotherapy and also rehabilitation.

Analisis Pembatasan Garam pada Pasien Hipertensi dan Faktor-Faktor Determinannya di Desa Perapat Nunggul Kecamatan Lawe Alas Kabupaten Aceh Tenggara

“…Hipertensi yang berkepanjangan dapat meningkatkan hipertrofi ventrikel kiri yang menyebabkan gagal jantung (baik sistolik maupun diastolik), peningkatan kebutuhan oksigen oleh miokardium yang dapat menyebabkan angina atau gejala iskemik dan predisposisi fibrilasi atrium yang menyebabkan stroke iskemik (Borhade, 2022). Komplikasi yang sering ditimbulkan dari hipertensi yaitu penyakit saraf, penyakit jantung koroner, penyakit serebrovaskular dan penyakit ginjal (Habib, 2019) (Dahlia, 2022). Menurut Justian (2022), perilaku yang didasari oleh pengetahuan akan lebih langgeng dari pada perilaku yang tidak didasari oleh pengetahuan.…”