This is why you have High blood pressure (hypertension)

Blood pressure is the pressure of our blood on the walls of our arteries as our heart pumps it around our body. It’s an essential part of how your heart and circulation works.

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Our blood pressure goes up and down naturally all the time, adjusting to our heart’s requirements depending on what we are doing. High blood pressure/hypertension is when our blood pressure is inflexibly higher than normal.

A blood pressure reading under 120/80mmHg is considered ideal. Readings over 120/80mmHg and up to 139/89mmHg are in the normal to high normal range.

High Blood pressure over a long time is one of the main risk factors for heart diseases. As we get older, the probabilities of having persistently high blood pressure increases.

It’s very significant to get your blood pressure checked regularly and if it’s insistently high it needs to be controlled as uncontrolled high blood pressure can lead to a stroke and heart attack and may also affect our kidneys, fluid in lungs, seizures, brain swelling and bleeding.

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What Causes High Blood Pressure?

The exact causes of high blood pressure are often not clear but our blood pressure may be generally influenced by following factors:

Stress and depression

Smoking

Being overweight or obese

Lack of physical activity

Thyroid disorders and Adrenal

Family history of high blood pressure

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Too much salt in the diet

Too much alcohol intake (more than 1-2 drinks a day)

Older age

Genetics

Sleep apnea

Long-term sleep deprivation

Chronic kidney disease

Making several healthy lifestyle changes can help keep our blood pressure at a normal level.

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