What Are the Effects of Long-Term Untreated Hypertension?
Hypertension occurs when blood being transported through the blood vessels exerts excessive force on the walls of the arteries. Long-term untreated hypertension can cause damage to the blood vessels and other organs in the body. “Medical Physiology: Principles For Clinical Medicine” by Rodney Rhoades and David R. Bell suggests that controlling hypertension with lifelong medication therapy is beneficial to people with hypertension while untreated hypertension can have harmful effects.
