If treatment is stopped, the pressure may rise again. Generally, someone with high blood pressure will be on lifelong medication. Usually hypertension can be managed by an Internal Medicine doctor. There are many different medications and new ones are coming out each year. They still take meds for hypertension.
Heart disease tends to run in families.
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