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Consultant Physician, Internal Medicine and Critical Care Expert - Answered on Apr 21, 2023

Dr Ashit Hegde specialises in internal medicine and intensive care. He has nearly 40 years of experience and is consultant physician, intensivist and head of the critical care section at the PD Hinduja Hospital and Medical Research Centre.
He is actively involved in teaching and training residents for post graduate programmes in internal medicine and critical care.
He holds an MD degree in general medicine and therapeutics from the Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Mumbai, and an MRCP from the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh.... more
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Iam 45 year old woman, working i have recently developed High BP which varies between 90-95/130-140. But i face no problem because of high bp, i have no symptoms of it. My lipid profile and other test are normal. do i need to start medication

Ans: Hypertension is treated to prevent long term consequences like stroke, heart disease, kidney damage etc. Treatment is needed even if you do not have symptoms. Of course you need to recheck the BP a few times before diagnosing hypertension. Ideally the BP should be checked three times (at 1 minute intervals) and the average of the last two readings should be calculated
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