Multi - Medication for Hypertension

One medicine is not enough to cure a fatal illness, but two or more may do.
Hypertension is one of the major causes of casualties in the Philippines, and according to the data collected by the Philippine Society for Hypertension, 8.6 million Filipinos are hypertensive. And among this great percentage of hypertensive people, some are also suffering from kidney implications, diabetes, and heart ailment. An enough insight to call for further studies and more enhance medications to reduce the risk of this night creeper from causing greater damage to patients.
In response with this calling, the International Verapamil SR/ Trandolapril Study or also known as INVEST, a group that initiates studies among hypertensive people, surfaced out the result of their studies. INVEST’s goal is to find out the impact of using different medications at once in achieving the target blood pressure level, plus lessening the percentage of the effect from some implicating diseases. The result, according to Dr. Rainer Kolloch, a professor of Medicine at the Gilead Medical Center, University of Münster in Germany who held his lecture at the Garden Ballroom of the Edsa Shangri –La Manila recently, only 15 % of their patients who used only one kind of medicine were to achieve blood pressure goal. The remaining 85% of their patients used two or more drugs in achieving their blood pressure goal.
This only shows that many people believe that single medication isn’t enough for them in securing their health. Still,even though experts advise people to depend on multi –medication, hypertensive people should also seek doctor’s advices because hypertension can have different implications depending to the patient’s real condition.