7) Confusion and altered consciousness
Remember hypertensive encephalopathy? Well, its symptoms begin within 12–48 hours after a sudden and sustained increase in blood pressure. Due to this, alterations in consciousness show up some hours later. Then the patient experiences impaired judgement and memory. A feeling of confusion will also appear. All these symptoms reveal the danger of turning into a coma if the condition is not treated, because all the neurological frame may tend to worsen.
