Bisoprolol

Bisoprolol is a β-blocker that affects the heart and circulation (blood flow through arteries and veins).

Bisoprolol is used to treat high blood pressure (hypertension) and heart failure. Bisoprolol is also used to prevent chest pain caused by angina. It can be used alone or in combination with other blood pressure medications.

High blood pressure is a common condition and when not treated, can cause damage to the brain, heart, blood vessels, kidneys and other parts of the body. Lowering high blood pressure helps prevent strokes, heart attacks, and kidney problems.

β-blocker protects heart from too much activity. This medicine works by affecting the body’s response to some nerve impulses, especially in the heart. As a result, Bisoprolol slows down the heart rate and makes the heart more efficient at pumping blood around the body.

The main side effects of bisoprolol are feeling dizzy or sick, headaches, cold hands or feet, constipation or diarrhea – these are usually mild and short-lived.
Bisoprolol

Definition of Hypertension

Definition of Hypertension
The World Health Organization defined hypertension as: systolic blood pressure > or equal 160mmHg and/or diastolic blood pressure > or equal 95mmHg and border line hypertension as systolic <160 and diastolic pressure 90-94mmHg or systolic 141-159 and diastolic pressure < 90 mmHg. The remainder of the population was considered ‘normotensive’.

Such definitions however are arbitrary because of the continuous nature of the blood pressure distribution. For most cases of hypertension, no underlying clinical case is found on investigation i.e., so called ‘essential’ hypertension. Essential hypertension is type of disease not hitherto recognized in medicine in which the defect is one of degree not of kind, quantitative not qualitative. It is apparently difficult for doctors to understand because it is departure from the ordinary process of binary thought to which they are brought up.

Definitions of hypertension are essentially pragmatic. They may be used to characterize groups of individuals that may benefit from specific treatment regimens – no pharmacologic and pharmacologic. For example, the cut points for ‘hypertension’ may be chosen at the level of blood pressure for which evidence of a treatment benefit is supported by data from randomized controlled clinical trials, and benefits of treatment outweighs risk. However these criteria will exclude the large numbers of people at excess risk from their blood pressure levels, but who are at or below the threshold for therapeutic intervention.
Definition of Hypertension