Hypertension? Is this a disease in which medication will be prescribed for the rest of your life? -

You need not necessarily take medication for life.there are various modes for therapy of hypertension.Therapies include salt restriction ,DASH diet ( dietry adjustment to stop hypertension),exercises, transcendental meditation and of course drugs . To ensure compliance on methods other than drug is difficult .Moreover drugs are the most efficacious method for controlling hypertension.if your blood pressure is only mildly elevated you can try other methods.Moderate to severe elevation definitely need drugs.

If you have aggravating factors such as obesity or high cholesterol and you lose weight and control your cholesterol it is possible for the medication to be stopped only your doc can safely say

depends on current age, current weight, current level of fitness, whether there are any complicating illnesses and probably most important the person s willingness to make permanent changes through improved diet and exercise

not necessarily it may be managed with diet and exercise,

Yes and no. When you are still within the pre-hypertensive state (systolic blood pressure 120-139mmHg, diastolc blood pressure 80-89mmHg) therapeutic lifestyle measures (reducing dietary salt and alcohol, excercise, quitting smoking etc) will usually suffice. However, once your blood pressure exceeds 140/90mmHg, these measures are usually inadequate (but still helpful). At this point a diagnosis of hypertension is made, and single or multi-drug therapy, depending on the severity of hypertension, usually ensues. Once you are being treated for hypertension, it is usually for life, apart from rare conditions leading to what s known as secondary hypertension, which is potentially curable by treating the underlying cause (e.g. kidney, cardia or endocrine diseases).