Q. Treatment and Management of Hypertension?
The first choice of treatment and management of primary hypertension is through behaviour modifications pertaining to food choices and lifestyle pattern. Patients who cannot maintain near normal levels despite dietary and life-style disorders are prescribed medications. Dietary management is important even for such patients in order to avoid drug dependency, side effects and dosage. We shall now learn in detail about the dietary management of hypertension. However, let us first identify the objectives of nutritional management.