high blood pressure is like high cholesterol and smoking -- they are "modifiable" risk factors meaning that controlling them will help in limiting your risk of developing coronary artery disease (cad). if high blood pressure is controlled well with medication diet and exercise that decreases the risk of cad. what's very important however is how long a person has undiagnosed high blood pressure before it is treated; the more years a person goes with undetected high blood pressure the greater the risk that coronary and other vascular disease may have developed. this can be easily assessed by a cardiologist using non-invasive diagnostic tests.
i have high blood pressure. i manage it with medication but my bp is still high. what is my risk for heart disease?